A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Through the AR app, Peter Der Manuelian (left) and Adam Aja show how soldiers come to life. (Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer) Opening the Snapchat app in this third-floor museum gallery ...

The ancient Assyrians have been judged somewhat unfairly as brutal people whose only desire was to conquer their neighbors. Although this is true to some extent, it overlooks the important role the ...

One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the ...

A cache of seven 2,700-year-old marble relief carvings have been unearthed by archaeologists beneath the dilapidated Mashki Gate, just east of Mosul in Iraq. The incredibly well-preserved relics ...

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 ...

Try your hand at cuneiform, dab some color with polychromy, or explore symbolic meanings. A timeline of the reliefs puts it all into context, and activity booklets are geared for both middle and high ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Michael Rakowitz (Detail of new work, on view for the first time, ...

This Assyrian rock art discovered under a home in southeastern Turkey was hidden by local looters. Mehmet Önal; interpretative drawings by Önal, based on laser scan by Cevher Mimarlık While ...