Two guardians, one lesson in movement. Why carvers gave them five legs and how viewers ‘activated’ them by walking.

One fierce emblem of royal protection. How pose, color, and placement worked along the Processional Way.

A new Assyrian capital built fast and vast: courts, lamassu-lined gateways, relief programs, and later fate.

Beauty and brutality: how artisans carved pain and control into palace walls—and why the scene still grips us today.

Not every relief roars. This one whispers control—through posture, harness, and the calm authority of a court servant.

From battlefield to banquet, social ranks line up in shell and lapis. How the box told a state’s story.

Statues you were never meant to see: how kings ‘planted’ protection beneath temples and wrote their names into the ground.

A compact figure of devotion. Proportions, big eyes, and the language of presence before a god.

Power in stillness: folded hands, calm gaze, and a text that frames rule as service. Materials, mines, meaning.

Grids of spears, godly favor, and the politics of memory: how a broken stele narrated war to its people.

A long-lived sacred landscape. Brick by brick, we follow rebuilds and the shift from ritual spaces to administrative power.

A careful dossier of a vanished giant. We balance literary fame with the archaeology that still struggles to pin it down.

Babylon’s iconic glazed-brick gateway: animals, inscriptions, route, excavation, and reconstruction in Berlin.

From Susa to the Louvre: context, content, and conservation of one of the world’s most cited legal monuments.

A stepped mountain of clay. Phases, ramps, and the temple that once sat on top—plus what 20th-century repairs changed.