Lahmu was a minor god associated with the god Ea. Ritual texts prescribe that such figures be buried in the corners of a room and in the...

Relief panel Period: Neo-Assyrian Date: ca. 883–859 B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Culture: Assyrian Medium: Gypsum...

Chair back carved in relief Period: Neo-Assyrian Date: ca. 8th century B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Culture:...

Ninurta (identified with Ningirsu, Pabilsag, and the biblical Nimrod) is the Sumerian and Akkadian hero-god of war, hunting, and the...

Zakutu (c. 701-c.668 BCE) was the Akkadian name of Naqia, a wife of King Sennacherib of Assyria, who reigned between 705-681 BCE. Though...

Tukulti-Ninurta I (reigned 1244-1208 BCE) was a king of the Assyrian Empire during the period known as the Middle Empire. He was the son...

Dur-Sharrukin (modern day Khorsabad, Iraq) was a city built by Sargon II of Assyria (reigned 722-705 BCE) as his new capital. The name...

Nineveh (modern-day Mosul, Iraq) was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity. The area was settled as early as 6000 BCE and,...

Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE, also known as Assurbanipal) was the last of the great kings of Assyria. His name means "the god Ashur is...

Sargon II (reigned 722-705 BCE) was one of the most important kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as founder of the Sargonid Dynasty which...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire (934-610 BCE or 912-612 BCE) was, according to many historians, the first true empire in the world. The Assyrians...

Sack of Babylon & Death of Sennacherib When the Elamite king died the following year, Sennacherib mobilized his forces and suddenly...

The Sargonid Dynasty was the last ruling house of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722-612 BCE. It began with the reign of Sargon II (reigned...

Look at this bas-relief found at a palace in Nimrud… …it depicts the humiliation of one man by another. Some sources identify the...

Austen Henry Layard, a British archaeologist, was born Mar. 5, 1817. In 1845, Layard led an expedition to investigate ruins of the cities...

Neo-Assyrian Chalcedony Cylinder Seal, C. 8th-7th Century BC A presentation scene depicted between two border lines; to the right stands...

Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns Period: Middle Assyrian Date: ca. 14th–13th century B.C....

Cylinder seal and modern impression: male figure dominating human-headed winged lions Period: Neo-Assyrian Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C....

Cylinder seal and modern impression: scorpion-man and bull-man attacking kneeling nude male Period: Neo-Babylonian Date: ca. 8th–7th...

Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshiper below a canopy flanked by winged genies Period: Neo-Assyrian Date: ca....