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Archaeologists Discovered Sand Beneath a 5,000-Year-Old Temple, Traced Back to Mountains 30 Miles Away
A thick deposit of deliberately placed sand found beneath an ancient Mesopotamian temple is shaking up what we thought we ...
View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...
In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment. Now a small team of archaeologists are protecting it from more modern threats Photographs by Emily Garthwaite Text by Leon ...
A close-up view of a wall relief depicting the God Ashur (Assur) inside a winged- disc, Nimrud, Iraq. (Wikimedia) Known today also as Qal'at Sherqat, the ancient Assyrian city of Assur is located in ...
Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...
Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946. - FSA A.6 03.040, on which Joseph Upton's classification ...
Children stand on the surrounding wall at Tabira Gate, the entrance to Assur, first capital of the Assyrian empire in present day Shirqat, Iraq. (Emily Garthwaite) On the west bank of the Tigris, less ...
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