(Penn Museum) At the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, a temple razed by fire around 612 BCE, has remarkably preserved shrines that were recovered by the Penn Museum and Iraqi ...

STARTTS, in collaboration with the Fairfield City Museum, is hosting a workshop designed for individuals interested in ...

One of the world's earliest empires, Assyria represents a crucial part of Iraq's cultural identity, which the so-called ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient ... program director of Penn's Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, said in a press release. "The condition and distribution of artifacts strongly ...

Partially reconstructed lamassus -- depictions of an Assyrian deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion and the ...

Archaeologists painstakingly reconstruct ancient Assyrian treasures destroyed by jihadists, preserving humanity's heritage at ...

"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... Nimrud reached its peak 4,000 years later and was the second capital of the Assyrian empire. Propaganda videos released by IS in 2015 showed ...

The Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists discovered remarkably preserved shrines at a temple that was destroyed by fire ...

Archaeologists are restoring ancient treasures in Nimrud, an Assyrian city in Iraq, nearly a decade after its destruction by ...

Partially reconstructed lamassus -- depictions of an Assyrian deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion and the wings of a bird -- lay on their side, not far from tablets bearing ancient ...