A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

Elden Ring Nightreign is full of mysteries, including a number of statues that seem to contain loot within. Attacking them with your weapons or magic has no effect, however, and there's no ...

Cultural heritage has become a cornerstone of Iraq’s post-Saddam foreign policy. But that same heritage can be more divisive ...

The Assyrian Church of the East is among the world's most ancient Christian communities, with roots in Mesopotamia. Its current patriarchal seat is located in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Siege - Part 1. Siege - Part 1 houses three wolf statues, configured in a small triangle so that they're easily found. This is the first time we encounter the mechanic, hence the lack of difficulty.

In this program: an interview with Badri Diril about his book on Assyrian folktales; in Australia Explained: how to nominate someone for the Order of Australia; and in SBS Examines: Reconciliation.

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but in recent years new statues have cropped up, including one this week.

Expect a fair chunk of the crowds to be clustered around the museum’s ancient Egyptian treasures, the centrepiece of which is ...

The model maker Helga Mueller works to restore a model of the Statue of Liberty, seen behind a model of the U.S. Capitol Building, at Miniwelt (Miniworld) in Lichtenstein, Germany, in 2015.