In a letter to the pharaoh of Egypt, Assur-uballit I (also called ... while trying to maintain their holdings in the West, the Assyrian military came under pressure. The Babylonians became fully ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

The Hebrew Bible claims that after part of the Assyrian army left to battle an Egyptian force, the "angel of the lord" killed the remaining Assyrian soldiers. Assyrian records claim that the ...

This technique proved much more successful. The Assyrian army eventually seized the Egyptian capital of Memphis. Although the pharaoh managed to escape, his entire family and a vast number of ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by ...

A recent discovery in Israel may corroborate an epic biblical account of an angel of the Lord wiping out 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, an independent scholar claims. Stephen Compton, an independent ...

The discovery of large amounts of Egyptian and Greek pottery at Megiddo ... that ended that occupation at the hands of the Assyrian army under Tiglath-Pileser III around 732 BCE.

A team of archaeologists unearthed some incredible artefacts including mudbrick-made military structures and warehouses from an Egyptian city. Carvings found inside the structures record the feats ...

(Library of Congress) A peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious journal Near Eastern Archaeology reports the first-ever discoveries of ancient Assyrian military camps. Created circa 700 BC during ...

Initially, Assyria was not a military power. Ashur had risen to prominence ... the Hittite state and the New Kingdom of Egypt.

Sennacherib is among the most famous leaders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which at its height spanned from what is now modern Iraq to the Caucasus and Egypt. His military campaign of 701 ...