Assyrian -Australian sculpture and painter Lewis Batros started a new initiative, teaching Diqlat Assyrian school students the art of painting. He aims at expanding the idea to other Assyrian schools.

Ancient Assyrian Art Today. Today, many Ancient Assyrian treasures are scattered throughout European and American museums and private collections. As in Egypt and other countries with rich ancient ...

SAN JOSE, CA – June 2: Akadina Yadegar and Nardin Sarkis curate “Diaspora in Bloom,” a contemporary exhibit of Assyrian-American art on display at the Art Ark Gallery in San Jose, Calif ...

How much do you know about Assyrians? For many Americans, it’s news we have members of the ancient Middle Eastern ethnic group living here in the U.S. today. Nardin Sarkis works in government ...

The painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders, ... the Old Testament figure who beguiles — and then decapitates — the Assyrian general Holofernes. Enlarge this image.

This article is an excerpt from a book titled The Assyrian Flag.It is in the form of an extensive interview that Mr. Homer Abramian, the chief editor of Kirkha (an Assyrian periodical published in ...

Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq Exhibition of famous relief sculptures, on loan from the British Museum in London, depicting warfare, hunting, courtly life, etc., during the height of Assyrian ...

This art style appears to have been adapted by local groups, indicating how strongly the culture of the Neo-Assyrian Empire — which hailed from Mesopotamia and later expanded into Anatolia ...

Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ...

Record-Setting Sale Of An Ancient Assyrian Stone Relief Sparks Looting Fears In Iraq The 3,000-year-old relief fetched more than $28 million at Christie's, more than any other similar work. But ...

In 1851, the French Minister of the Interior glimpsed at the British Museum’s growing collection of Assyrian art and ordered that casts of Lycian and Assyrian reliefs be made and new French ...