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Gypsum panel showing the Assyrian army attacking the Egyptian city of Memphis and commemorating the final victory of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal II over the Egyptian king Taharqa in 667 BCE. Panel 17, Room M of the North Palace at Nineveh...

Basalt reliefs depicting Assyrian warriors of different ranks in procession with a royal chariot led by the commander-in-chief of the Assyrian army. The reliefs were acquired and gathered during the years 1848, 1946, 1948, 1982, and 1995...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, c. 728 BCE. This is part of a series of reliefs showing Arab prisoners brought before the Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III (r. 744-727...

Ancient Mesopotamian warfare progressed from companies of a city's militia in Sumer to the professional standing armies of Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, and from conflicts over land or water rights to wars of conquest and political...

The Middle Assyrian period (c. 1365–1000 BCE) emerged from the shifting balance of power in the Late Bronze Age Near East. After earlier subordination to Mitanni, Assyria reasserted its autonomy under Ashur-uballit I (reign c. 1365–1330 BCE...

Alabaster bas-relief showing Assyrian soldiers holding the decapitated heads of their defeated enemy before Assyrian musicians. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 6 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day...

An almost 3-meter-high alabaster bas-relief depicting four high-ranking Assyrian officials or dignitaries, stepping forward to greet the Assyrian king, Sargon II. From the Royal Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in modern-day Nineveh Governorate...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq. This is one of a series of panels that showed Tiglath-Pileser III's military campaigns in modern-day southern Iraq. On the left is a captured town, with...

Assyrian alabaster panel showing Babylonian prisoners in a camp, from the North Palace at Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, reign of Ashurbanipal II, 668-630 BCE. To the left, an Assyrian soldier stands...

Alabaster bas-relief sowing a beheaded soldier; he was an Assyrian enemy. An Assyrian cavalry is passing over him. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 9 (top), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British...