What Is Ancient Assyrian Art? Learn About the Art of the Powerful Empire
By Madeleine Muzdakis on December 27, 2020 A Neo-Assyrian gypsum relief depicting a royal lion hunt, from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud Palace Relief. Created between 875 BCE and 860 BCE. (Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0]) Arising from the Fertile Crescent, the Assyrian Empire once ruled over Mesopotamia with powerful armies and grand stone palaces. This advanced civilization greatly predated the Roman and Greek Empires but produced works of art as delicate as Greek amphorae ...