For more than two and a half millennia, the official roster of ancient Assyria’s rulers appeared to be one of the most reliable king lists to survive from the ancient world. Two scholars now argue ...

For nearly a century, historians have relied on the Assyrian King List as the authoritative record of who ruled the ancient Assyrian Empire, especially during its later centuries. Now, new research ...

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, ...

Wall relief panel depicting an “urmahlilu” (Lion-Man) (645-640 BCE), a protective spirit, North Palace, Nineveh, in the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria (unless noted otherwise, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Relief of high officials and a soldier wearing Kassettenmuster-fabric from the Central Palace, left by Rassam in situ. (CREDIT: ...

Archaeologists in Mosul have made a stunning find beneath the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah that was destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2014: the long-hidden palace of ancient Assyrian King ...

Installation view of Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq. From the 800s to the 600s B.C., the kings of Assyria built grand palaces in their capital cities, located in the land we know today as Iraq.

The capture of the city of Astartu by the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III about 730--727 B.C., as depicted on a palace relief now kept on display at the British Museum. (David Castor/Wikimedia ...

Assyriologists Discover Evidence of Three Previously Unknown Rulers of the First World Empire For more than 100 years, research assumed that the rulers of the ancient Assyrian Empire in the Near East ...