French startup Assur.com lets you find and compare all sorts of insurance products without having to enter all your personal information. While insurance aggregators are nothing new, they usually ask ...

In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment. Now a small team of archaeologists are protecting it from more modern threats Photographs by Emily Garthwaite Text by Leon ...

View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...

A close-up view of a wall relief depicting the God Ashur (Assur) inside a winged- disc, Nimrud, Iraq. (Wikimedia) Known today also as Qal'at Sherqat, the ancient Assyrian city of Assur is located in ...

Back in Assur, the wine was moved to cellars for the well-to-do in the city, and the logs from the rafts repurposed into timber for construction. “ Assur was mostly overlooked by British and French ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946. - FSA A.6 03.040, on which Joseph Upton's classification ...

The Assyrians are a people who have lived in the Middle East since ancient times and today can be found all over the world. They are well known for their vast ancient empire; ancient cities, such as ...

Children stand on the surrounding wall at Tabira Gate, the entrance to Assur, first capital of the Assyrian empire in present day Shirqat, Iraq. (Emily Garthwaite) On the west bank of the Tigris, less ...