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 ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of an Assyrian military campaign against Judaea that resulted in the siege of Jerusalem. The campaign was launched in 701 B.C., when Sennacherib was king of Assyria ...

The Taylor Prism was discovered in 1830 at Nineveh and is currently housed at the British Museum in London. Imagine if all of the world's ancient cultures and civilizations had had well-developed ...

The earliest aerial photograph of Jerusalem (lower left) with an oval fortification visible on a hill in the upper right. (Library of Congress) A peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious journal Near ...