But the Nineveh food truck, which last year expanded into a full restaurant, is rare in both Olympia and the entire US. It ...

The Assyrian community, sometimes referred to as Syriacs, Chaldeans, or Arameans, represents one of the Middle East's oldest ...

What it tells us about the past: This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for scuba ...

In the center of the relief stands Ashurbanipal, the last king of the Assyrian Empire, who ruled from 669 to 631 B.C. He is flanked by the ancient Mesopotamian gods Ashur and Ishtar, and they are ...

The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are also believed to have been built during ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

In 763 BCE, within the vast and powerful Assyrian Empire centered around the city of Nineveh, a remarkable and somewhat eerie event occurred. On June 15, in the full light of day, the world ...

Some 180 stamp impressions of the Judahite administration discovered at Mordot Arnona on display at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel. Sennacherib was the ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.