as it was looted and burned by invaders from Babylon and Media during the fall of the Assyrian Empire. Cuneiform, the writing system used on many of the discovered artifacts, is considered to be ...

Despite her busy career, the mystery writer made time every winter from 1949 to 1957 to register and photograph the artifacts that ... the capital of the neo-Assyrian Empire in 883 B.C., under ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

"The condition and distribution of artifacts strongly suggest that ... materials and artistic styles reflect the wealth of the Assyrian Empire, not to mention its military conquests and trade ...