The excavation was announced by Iraqi authorities last week. (all photos by Mustafa Faraj, courtesy Mustafa Faraj and Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage) A team of French and Iraqi ...

Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old Assyrian sculpture that had last been seen decades before. First documented in the nineteenth century and ...

Gypsum wall panel relief: showing the crossing of a river. Horses swim, led by grooms, while a chariot, bed and jar are carried on coracles. Figures are shown complete and not half submerged which is ...

The reliefs—which likely depict an Assyrian king's military campaigns—are the first major discoveries of their kind in Iraq since the 1800s. A member of a joint Iraq-U.S. archaeological team gently ...

Mavigliano, George & Richard Lawson, "The Federal Art Project in Illinois: 1935-1943," Southern Illinois University Press, 1990. The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the ...

"...shortened edition of the authors' publication 'Assyrian Palace Reliefs; and their influence on the Sculptures of Babylonia and Persia, published by Artia Press ...