The handshake originated thousands of years ago when Ancient Greeks used it to show their dominant right hand was not holding ...

Historians widely regard the theory that the handshake originated as a gesture to prove one was not concealing a weapon, by ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

A volunteer from the village of Surka in Dohuk, working on the landscape in front of the community Hall built by the people of the village. Credit: Assyrian Aid Relief The Assyrian Aid Relief – ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, ...

Ever since the Los Angeles County Museum opened a year ago, a massive assemblage (8 ft. by 251 ft.) of dark alabaster Assyrian reliefs has stood proudly in the marble foyer. Admired by the museum’s ...

The Assyrian Empire, predominant in the Iron Age was one of the first of its expanse to traverse continents with its borders. Northeast Africa to Anatolia made up the empire's norther border with ...

This study aims to compare some images of beardless attendants in monumental reliefs from the Achaemenid (c. 550-330 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian (c. 911-612 BCE) empires, which we consider relevant sources ...

For millennia, hundreds of vivid bas-reliefs adorned the walls of the Nineveh palace of the legendary eighth-century BCE Assyrian king Sennacherib, depicting daring conquests richly described in ...

A group of excavators recently uncovered the first-ever Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem — shedding light on ancient power struggles described in the Bible. The inscription, which was carved on ...

A rare Assyrian stone relief has been sold in New York for the record-breaking price of $31 million, destroying the previous highest selling price for a piece of Assyrian art. Museums and collectors ...