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

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At its height, the Assyrian state stretched from the Mediterranean and Egypt in the west to the Persian ... political unrest and Assyrian military defeat by a coalition of Babylonian and Median ...

The Lachish relief depicts the Assyrian army laying siege in 701 BC to the ... Soon the Assyrians had conquered an empire stretching from Egypt to Iran. Lachish was just one city that fell in ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

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

Tiglath-Pileser III finished a period of political and military stagnation of the Assyrian state and expanded his realm westward. The campaign forced King Hanunu to flee from Gaza to Egypt but he ...

Ashurbanipal's military prowess was unquestionable, as his Assyrian Empire conquered lands from Egypt to Mesopotamia, but the mighty king crowed the loudest about his great royal library ...

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 ...

“Service of Greeks, probably from western Anatolia, in the Egyptian army of the 26th Dynasty is referred to in both Greek [from Herodotus] and Assyrian sources,” Kleiman noted. “The ...