Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BCE, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

Other events of his reign include his destruction of the city of Babylon in 689 BCE and his renovation and expansion of the last great Assyrian capital, Nineveh. Recent excavations in Jerusalem ...

From 717 to 707, Sargon constructed a new Assyrian capital named after himself, Dur-Sharrukin ('Fort Sargon'), which he made his official residence in 706. Sargon considered himself to have been ...

The Nimrud wine lists: a study of men and administration at the Assyrian capital in the eighth century B.C., by J. V. Kinnier Wilson; with a foreword by Sir Max Mallewan.

Isaiah is most known for his four Servant Songs. The prophet foresees God’s coming and growing up as a man and becoming the ...

The Assyrian campaign in Jerusalem impacted the Judean economy in the 8th-7th centuries BC. Photo of excavation site in Jerusalem’s Mordot Arnona neighborhood. Credit: Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities ...

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Assyrian-speaking Australians. Hear from people who have built successful lives in this new country. Get the latest with our ...

More than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, this city -- then known as Nineveh -- was the capital of Assyria, which ruled much of the modern Middle East. -The Assyrians built the first huge ...

Capital structure describes the mix of a firm's long-term capital—a mix of debt and equity—that it uses to fund its ongoing operations and future growth. A company's capital structure is ...

This instrument came inscribed on a box of elephant ivory found in the old Assyrian capital Nimrud. The instrument is a type of large zither with a thin trapezoidal soundboard that is famous for its ...

Assyrians, a Christian indigenous group tracing their ancestry to ancient Mesopotamia in the modern Middle East, are a tiny ...