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Assyrian wall panel, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, reused later in the South-West Palace, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. One of a series, it shows two disconnected scenes...

Assyrian wall panel from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq, reused later in the South-West Palace, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. The panel, one of a series, shows 2 disconnected scenes...

Assyria has a long history, beginning in northern Mesopotamia and then expanding during the Neo-Assyrian Empire from Mesopotamia through Asia Minor, and down through Egypt. The empire began in the city of Ashur and went through many different...

This detail depicts the deportation of the inhabitants of the city of Astartu (in modern-day Jordan Kingdom). The deported people are holding their personal belongings and are led by an Assyrian solider. The city was captured by the Assyrian...

The Assyrian military was the most effective – and feared – fighting force in the Near East, especially during the time of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 912-612 BCE, when their territory expanded across Mesopotamia, the Levant, into Asia Minor...

Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to modern-day...

Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire c. 912-612 BCE, showing expansion by Shalmeneser III (r. c. 859-824 BCE), Tiglath-Pileser III (r. c. 745-727 BCE), Sargon II (r. c. 722-705 BCE), Sennacherib (r. c. 705-681 BCE), and Ashurbanipal (r. c. 688-627...

Assyrian relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, Iraq, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. Date palms indicate that the city, most of which were on an adjacent slab, was probably Babylonia...

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 relief, from the Central Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq; reused later in the South-West Palace, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, c. 728 BCE. An enemy horseman is ridden down by a pair of a armored...