A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

Christie’s New York will auction an important Assyrian relief on behalf of the Virginia Theological Seminary, the largest accredited Episcopal seminary in the U.S., which has housed the ancient ...

Not only war but also a U.S. prioritization of the Kurdistan Regional Government's stability over decades has accelerated the ...

This photo taken on May 12, 2025 shows Assyrian reliefs in the Khinis Valley, northern Iraq. (Xinhua/Duan Minfu) This photo taken on May 12, 2025 shows an Assyrian relief in the Khinis Valley, ...

A bungled looting scheme has led archaeologists to an underground Iron Age complex in Turkey that may have been used by a fertility cult during the first millennium B.C., a new study finds. "The ...