Close examination of the reliefs provide details about Assyrian history and culture. Use the viewing screen below to see if you can find the items mentioned in each description.

Bronze Age architecture was characterised by city walls constructed from massive stone blocks. To overpower defenders and breach these fortifications, new siege technologies were developed. Besieging ...

Starting from a base in Mesopotamia, the Neo-Assyrian Empire (883–609 ... away sediment to reveal a 13-foot-wide relief panel carved into the rock wall that appeared to depict a procession ...

And the resounding success of the Assyrian campaign is what is celebrated in these carvings. They're in shallow relief, and they'd have run like a continuous frieze pretty well from floor to ...

The Assyrian city of Nineveh ... throne room has been completely destroyed and the lamassu demolished. "The wall reliefs and lamassu of the second gateway have also been damaged, with only ...

SBS Assyrian correspondent in Duhok, Naseem Sadiq, spoke with Mr Sliwa days after a section of the ancient wall was bulldozed by private contractors, in order to make way for road construction.