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Assyrian Soldiers Engaging with Nubian Soldiers at Memphis
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Soldiers Engaging with Nubian Soldiers at Memphis

Detail of a large gypsum wall panel showing the Assyrian army attacking the Egyptian city of Memphis and commemorating the final victory of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal II over the Egyptian king Taharqa in 667 BCE. Panel 17, Room M of the...
Assyrian Archers Attacking an Egyptian Fortress at Memphis
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Archers Attacking an Egyptian Fortress at Memphis

Detail of a large gypsum wall panel showing the Assyrian army attacking the Egyptian city of Memphis and commemorating the final victory of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal II over the Egyptian king Taharqa in 667 BCE. Panel 17, Room M of the...
Assyrian Soldiers Holding Decapitated Heads of Nubian Soldiers
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Soldiers Holding Decapitated Heads of Nubian Soldiers

Detail of a large gypsum wall panel, depicting the Assyrian attack on a fortress at the Egyptian city of Memphis in 667 BCE, Panel 17, Room M of the North Palace at Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, Neo-Assyrian Empire, 645-635...
Assyrian Soldiers with Nubian Prisoners
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Soldiers with Nubian Prisoners

This is a detail of a large gypsum wall panel. The panel depicts the Assyrian attack on a fortress at the Egyptian city of Memphis in 667 BCE. Here the Nubian soldiers of King Taharqa (of the 25th Dynasty) are being led, as prisoners, by...
Assyrian Army Attacking Memphis
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Army Attacking Memphis

Gypsum panel showing the Assyrian army attacking the Egyptian city of Memphis and commemorating the final victory of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal II over the Egyptian king Taharqa in 667 BCE. Panel 17, Room M of the North Palace at Nineveh...
Assyrian Scale Armor
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Assyrian Scale Armor

Assyrian soldiers wore copper alloy armor made in segments aligned like fish-scales. Hole allowed the scales to be laced together and a central ridge maintained their alignment. The armor only protected the back and chest, thus allowing free...
Clay Cover of the Tablet of Shamash (II)
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Clay Cover of the Tablet of Shamash (II)

This is a fired clay cover of the sun god (Shamash) tablet. Its purpose was to protect the obverse side (face) of the tablet. It has retained the impression of the carved panel of the tablet. The Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina (reigned...
Clay Cover of the Tablet of Shamash
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Clay Cover of the Tablet of Shamash

This is a fired clay cover of the sun god (Shamash) tablet. Its purpose was to protect the obverse side (face) of the tablet. It has retained the impression of the carved panel of the tablet. The Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina (reigned...
Back Façade of Surb Astvatsatsin Church
Image by James Blake Wiener

Back Façade of Surb Astvatsatsin Church

This is the back façade of the Surb Astvatsatsin Church, which forms part of the medieval Noravank Monastery in present-day Armenia.
Khachkar within Noravank Monastery's Surb Karapet Church
Image by James Blake Wiener

Khachkar within Noravank Monastery's Surb Karapet Church

This exquisite khachkar lies within Noravank Monastery's Surb Karapet Church in Armenia.
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