A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...

The [university's] lamassu has five legs, which was typical for those created during Sargon II's reign. This "double-aspect" causes the figure to appear to be standing or walking when viewed ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...