This verse from the Bible likely sounds familiar to many; it refers to the conquest of the Mesopotamian city by Cyrus the Great and the Persians in 539 BCE, the year they ended a period of Babylonian ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated on 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities on each one of those days The modern Syriac people have ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated in 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities in each one of those days The modern Syriac people have ...

Photograph by Granger Collection/Age Fotostock Babylon was famous for its Hanging Gardens, which some believe may have actually been in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, where this relief ...

He was famed for excavating significant Assyrian and Babylonian finds, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest piece of literature in the world. He discovered the map in 1881 during a dig in ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

Unlike Egypt, Iraq accommodated not one but two provincial identities, the Assyrian and the Babylonian. Both cultures had of course suffered violent destruction on their fall a thousand years before ...

While Assyria successfully conquered Samaria, they failed ultimately to overcome Jerusalem. It was not until the year 586 BCE that the Kingdom of Judah experienced exile under the Babylonians.

Three Babylonian men on the left are followed by an Assyrian soldier, recognisable by this crested helmet, who is using a stick to beat the captive in front of him. Behind them are female ...