Ashurbanipal

Ashurbanipal is regarded by many historians as the last of the great Kings of the Assyrian Empire. He was the … More

Zoroastrianism at the British Museum

I recently went to the British Museum’s current exhibition on Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism was a state religion of Persia from around … More

The final scenes in the wall reliefs from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh show the conquering Assyrian army returning with the … More

Arriving back in Ninevah following his campaign in Judea, King Sennacherib decided to record the battle of Lachish as a … More

From around the year 900 BCE, the Assyrian Empire began to expand and by 700 BCE had reached as far … More