Today Ashurbanipal is not a household name, but in any account of the ancient Near East, he and his dynasty loom large. The last successful ruler of the Neo-Assyrian empire (911-609BC), Ashurbanipal ...
In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in archaeology, ...
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Rare stele of Assyrian king who reigned 2,600 years ago unearthed in Iraq's Nineveh
Ashurbanipal monument underscores the province's cultural resurgence nearly a decade after ISIS destruction ...
The British Museum’s latest blockbuster exhibition is on the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. Most people would be forgiven for thinking Ashurbani-who? If Ashurbanipal was still alive to hear of this he’d ...
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, ...
Alastair Sooke has been covering art for The Telegraph since 2003. He has presented more than 60 hours of TV and radio for the BBC (Modern Masters, Treasures of Ancient Egypt, An Art Lovers’ Guide), ...
SBS Assyrian spoke with Marlyn Galo about a special event at the Ashurbanipal Library in Sydney, where three Assyrian authors will be honoured while also celebrating the latest developments and ...
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