Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the royal hunt. These huge panels show the king, Ashurbanipal, shooting, spearing and stabbing a ...

A history of the peasant way of life, a book from one of Italy’s foremost feminists, a study of ancient wisdom of Mesopotamia ...

Libraries have long stood as pillars of knowledge and culture, evolving from ancient archives to modern public institutions.

If you ask Microsoft’s Copilot “What is the significance of an exclamation point behind the word “library,” it dutifully ...

Thanks to a project backed by the Lombardy Region, Milan’s Ambrosiana Library has digitised an important collection of Arabic ...

Take extispicy, the science of divining the will of the gods in a sheep's entrails. A question was proposed, answerable only by "yes" or "no". Thus, in March 651BC, Ashurbanipal, at war with his ...

Today, military dogs undergo rigorous training to hone their unique skills that make them valuable assets of the military special forces. Ashurbanipal’s servant with a dog, amid lion-hunts. From Room ...

在埃及南部，尼罗河蜿蜒穿过广袤的沙漠地带：这里是古代的努比亚 (Nubia)地区，如今属于苏丹 (Sudan)。自古以来，努比亚的命运就与尼罗河上的六处大瀑布紧密相连。在这些地方，多岩石的河床使尼罗河水激荡成汹涌的急流，无法实现不间断的通航。这就是为什么在历史上很长一段时期，努比亚与强大的北方邻国埃及一直处于隔绝状态。但从公元前8世纪开始，来自库施王国 (Kushite ...