Approximately 180 stamp impressions of the Judahite administration discovered at Mordot Arnona. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority) For the first time near Jerusalem, archeological excavation ...

Back in the day, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s biggest superpowers, controlling a land mass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished this feat with military technologies that ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of an Assyrian military campaign against Judaea that resulted in the siege of Jerusalem. The campaign was launched in 701 B.C., when Sennacherib was king of Assyria ...

COLLEGEDALE — Thousands of years ago, the kingdom of Judah was under attack. Among the few remaining records of that? The Bible, which says an angel vanquished the troops of an aggressive Assyrian ...

The earliest aerial photograph of Jerusalem (lower left) with an oval fortification visible on a hill in the upper right. (Library of Congress) A peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious journal Near ...

A riveting new exhibition, titled “Peace and War: The Assyrian Conquest of Lachish,” will open on Jan. 30 in the Lynn H. Wood Archaeology Museum on Southern Adventist University’s campus. The museum ...

On Monday, Pope Francis ended his trip to Iraq where he preached a message of peace and religious tolerance over a four-day period. In this first-ever visit by a pope to the country, the pontiff ...