Hyperallergic

2,700-Year-Old Sculpture of Assyrian Deity Unearthed in Iraq

The excavation was announced by Iraqi authorities last week. (all photos by Mustafa Faraj, courtesy Mustafa Faraj and Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage) A team of French and Iraqi ...
AINA

Assyrian Lamassu Erected At Acropolis Museum

Athens -- Visitors to the Acropolis Museum today were met with a striking new sight on the west side of its outdoor terrace -- a monumental sculpture in the form of a winged bull. On closer inspection ...
AINA

Assyrian Poetry At the British Museum

(AINA) -- On Saturday 29th November 2008, in front of a crowd of over 40 people in the British Museum in London, UK, the Assyrian poet, Nineb Lamassu thrilled and moved the crowd with four poems ...
KPBS

In England, An Effort To Preserve Ancient, Epic Assyrian Poetry

When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...
CNN

Teen hits back at ISIS by sculpting Nimrud’s ruined artifacts

When footage emerged of ISIS destroying the ancient city of Nimrud outside Mosul, the world stood powerless in the face of a group of militants using sledgehammers and electric drills to obliterate ...
Chicago Tribune

Skokie artist uses snow to create intricate works of art: ‘I made it just to share and spread joy’

Thanks to plenty of snow and a sculptor’s hand, a Skokie neighborhood is home to a temporary art installation. On display in the 8900 block of Bronx Avenue last week was a snow sculpture of a mythical ...
NPR

In England, An Effort To Preserve Ancient, Epic Assyrian Poetry

When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...