Ancient Assyrian clay tablets held at the British Museum in London. (Alamy) Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major ...
Relief from the 7th century BC showing roops of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal attack a city with archers and war machines. (DeAgostini/Getty Images) The British Museum is well placed to refer to the ...
Room L.1932 and the entrance to the upper room L.1238 in the background, view from the SW, 2022 season. Credit: M. Jean et al. 2026 The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their ...
An Iraqi-Italian archaeological team discovers evidence of the fall of the Assyrian city in 612 BC and of the fight against ISIS in 2017, all beneath the tunnels dug by the jihadists. This is ...
A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...
A little-known 19th-century history of "Nineveh" in Bombay provides a glimpse of the many new histories, which collections, and their visualisation and displays, allow us to establish. It also ...