Atorina Zomaya. (Assyrian Kitchen) Atorina Zomaya, the spirited founder of Assyrian Kitchen, is making ancient foods a modern phenomenon. As part of the Chicago-based interactive cooking project, ...

A new book has been published in the Oxford University Press Series on Ancient History, Very Short Introductions. The book Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction is written by the distinguished ...

Rabban Hormizd Monastery in the town of Alqosh, which has been the site of recent tensions due to the forced removal of its elected Assyrian mayor Fayez Abed Jawahreh and his replacement with a ...

A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

These days, not too many people use or even own typewriters. Those clunky machines have almost entirely been replaced by a smoother model: the modern computer. Imagine, however, that thousands of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More ...

Researchers have drawn parallels between decline of Assyrian civilization and today's situation in Syria and Iraq. There's more to the decline of the once mighty ancient Assyrian Empire than just ...

Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic ...

Back then, turtles were not a regular meal in Mesopotamia. Turtle bones, however, were thought to ward off evil. The abundance of R. euphraticus turtles, a notoriously aggressive species, in this ...