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By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer Tenise Marie, a BC singer-songwriter of Assyrian, French, and British descent, is set to release her newest album, Off the Record, on July 11. I listened to an ...
Assyrian culture is being re-introduced to the arts through these stories taking life on stage—moving audiences past the iconic stone-carved lamassu (protective deities) of antiquity—and ...
A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried, and uncovered again in 2023.
The head of a lamassu statue, an ancient Assyrian deity often depicted as a winged-bull with a human head, lies in the archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul, on January 3, 2025.
The official book trailer for “Lamassu Falling” is now available on Explora Books’ social media channels, offering a visual glimpse into the drama and intensity of Ortiz’s Assyrian epic.
Partially reconstructed depictions of lamassu — an Assyrian deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion and the wings of a bird — lay on their side, not far from tablets bearing ...
A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground.
A massive sculpture of a lamassu, a deity with a human head and a winged bull’s body, was recently unearthed at the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 883–609 B.C.) capital of Dur-Sharrukin, in northern Iraq ...
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