A rare Assyrian stone relief has been sold in New York for the record-breaking price of $31 million, destroying the previous highest selling price for a piece of Assyrian art. Museums and collectors ...

Climate-related megadroughts built the foundation for the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (912 to 609 BCE), the largest and most powerful empire of its time, a new study published in the journal ...

(AINA) -- Assyrian identity is not a passing affiliation or a distant historical memory; it is a living, evolving project that carries within it thousands of years of civilization, knowledge, ...

Israeli and American archaeologists say they have managed to reconstruct how the Assyrian army may have built a massive ramp to breach the Judean city of Lachish in 701 BCE, deepening their ...

Nadi Al-Athori (Assyrian Sports Club) of Baghdad, 1960s, featuring Ammo Baba (back row, third from the right). Football is more than a sport in Iraq -- it is a unifying passion that transcends ...

"Diaspora in Bloom: Transcending Borders Through Assyrian Art" is a virtual exhibition dedicated to celebrating contemporary art by the global Assyrian diaspora. Co-curated by Nardin Sarkis and ...

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, ...

Turkey’s Ilisu dam will flood hundreds of ancient sites, including the city of Tušhan, but there is now a rich record of what will be lost It’s a sad fact of archaeological life that we can often only ...

Bittersweet new year celebrations take place in one of more than 30 villages by the Khabur River destroyed by Islamic State Share TEL ARBOUSH, Syria (AP) — The young men and women in traditional ...

On day 189 of the Nuremberg Trials, French prosecutor Auguste Champetier de Ribes delivered his closing statement. In it, he described the Holocaust as a “crime so monstrous, so undreamt of in history ...

In the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır, the Municipality of Eğil and the district governor's office have been working extensively to preserve and promote the ancient Assyrian Eğil Castle ...

What is the difference between an Assyrian and an asexual? That’s the question doctor-turned-comedian Jenan Younis was confronting after one of her gigs. “I had spoken about being Assyrian and after ...