EditorialWarriors carrying heads of enemies and throwing them on a heap. Battle of Til Tuba. Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians fight Teumman, King of Elam, on the Ulai river in 635 BCE. Stone bas-relief (7th BCE) from the palace in Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq) .
EditorialTower with defenders. Assyrians attack the Jewish fortified town of Lachish (battle 701 BCE). Part of a relief from the palace of Sennacherib at Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq).
EditorialHorse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 6.38 x 2.6 in. (16.21 x 6.6 cm), Ivory/Bone-Equestrian, Over two hundred ivory and gyps...
EditorialWall panel. South West Palace, Nimrud, (730-727 BC), Iraq. Campaigns of king Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 BC). Gypsum wall panel relief. Detail depicting the charioteers of king Tiglath-pileser III. The capture of Astartu. Assyrians. British Museum. Lo...