But nearly a century earlier, in 648 BCE, the city had already endured a similar tragedy when the Assyrian Ashurbanipal (the Sardanapalus of classical literature) destroyed it and massacred its ...

The Assyrian Australian Association launched the Ashurbanipal Library on Thursday, May 5, 2022, with more than 300 invited guests celebrating the occasion at Eden Venues in Bonnyrigg. The Evening ...

This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham, depicts the results of civil war between Assyria and Bablyon in which Ashurbanipal was victorious over this brother Shamash-shum-ukin of Babylon.