Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

Statues of the Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu are often found at archaeological sites, and his cultural relevance is seen in ...

When writing was still inscribed on clay tablets and empires rose and fell under the weight of their own gods, the Assyrians ...

Before this they spoke Akkadian and Assyrian Aramaic (which co-existed until circa 500 B.C. Aramaic was made the second official language of the Empire in 752 B.C.). Modern Assyrian (neo-Syriac) is ...

She emerged as the most widely revered deity in the Assyrian pantheon of gods, and it would have been impossible to visit an important city in the Assyrian Empire without finding a magnificent temple ...

2,700 years ago, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heildelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During ...

In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. This is the first time an image of a major god has been discovered inside an Assyrian ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

Because Assyrian culture predated Islam, members of ISIS—or Daesh, as it is called here—considered representations of ancient Assyrian gods to be blasphemous and so destroyed them; when they ...

Among the most significant features of the archaeological site is the Ninurta Temple—with its ziggurat (stepped tower)—dedicated to the eponymous Assyrian god of war and agriculture.