For approximately a century, researchers studying the Assyrian Empire's history have relied on the Assyrian King List (AKL) as the definitive record of Assyrian monarchs and their chronology, ...

The stele has since been moved to the Inspectorate’s headquarters to undergo initial restoration work so that it can be studied in depth. A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the ...

A rare 2,600-year-old Assyrian monument has been found at the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq. The discovery is a major success for an area where Islamic State militants (ISIS) deliberately destroyed ...

Imagine, if you will, that an industrious scholar has unearthed credible evidence of a missing monarch in the accepted historical line of succession of the British crown. Another Elizabeth who ruled ...

Did the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE mark the end of Assyria? A new interdisciplinary study by the Assyrian-Australian Daniel Sada argues that the contemporary Persian evidence tells a fundamentally ...

After Assyrian families in Skokie, Niles, Morton Grove and Lincolnwood spent nearly a decade advocating for an Assyrian language program at Niles Township High School District 219, the program, the ...

Ancient Assyrian texts detailed a legal system of paying blood money for murdered merchants. The blood money system created a formal practice across Assyria and Anatolia, complete with diplomatic ...

At St. Mary's Assyrian Church in Tarzana, the Akitu table is set and the faithful across California are ready to welcome a new year on April 1. TARZANA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- For the Assyrian faithful ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors. A room in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh with ...

A group of excavators recently uncovered the first-ever Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem — shedding light on ancient power struggles described in the Bible. The inscription, which was carved on ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in the Old Testament. “For me as a historian, this is somewhat ...