The wall paintings of Tell Ahmar Palace. The colours of the Assyrian Empire

FRENCH LANGUAGE

Unexpected and unique testimonies to date, Tell Ahmar's paintings are among the oldest preserved in the Louvre Museum. More than two thousand five hundred years ago, they covered the walls of a palace built in the western provinces of the Assyrian empire (in present-day Syria). The miles of miraculously preserved paintings have revealed an extraordinary setting where scenes of audiences, war or royal hunting are displayed, teeming with details. The Louvre and Aleppo museums preserve several original fragments, while the rest have since disappeared. The Louvre also houses, as a treasure of almost original value, tens of metres of watercolour surveys to the exact scale of the mural paintings of the Royal Palace of Tell Ahmar, a unique ensemble created in 1930 at the time of the excavations.

Co-publishing with the Louvre Museum
176 pages / 150 illustrations
French Language
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