Zig Zag (2020) by Rabel Betshmuel. "Diaspora in Bloom: Transcending Borders Through Assyrian Art" is a virtual exhibition dedicated to celebrating contemporary art by the global Assyrian diaspora.

This Assyrian rock art discovered under a home in southeastern Turkey was hidden by local looters. Mehmet Önal; interpretative drawings by Önal, based on laser scan by Cevher Mimarlık While ...

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, now known to have been located in Nineveh, by Dankha Zomaya. (AINA) Artists often travel to beautiful landscapes to paint them. Dankha Zomaya travels back in time to ...

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In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

Chaos is where a work begins but not where it ends for the Iraqi-born, Kentucky-based artist Vian Sora. “My process is very unpredictable at first,” she explained while standing inside “End of ...

Thanks to plenty of snow and a sculptor’s hand, a Skokie neighborhood is home to a temporary art installation. On display in the 8900 block of Bronx Avenue last week was a snow sculpture of a mythical ...

The reliefs—which likely depict an Assyrian king's military campaigns—are the first major discoveries of their kind in Iraq since the 1800s. A member of a joint Iraq-U.S. archaeological team gently ...

Introduction : becoming art -- The search for Origins : Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- Uruk : the arts of civilization -- Early Dynastic Sumer : images for people, temples for gods -- ...