Images of the fierce animal are so commonplace ... panel reliefs from an Assyrian palace at Nineveh, depicting the royal lion hunt of Ashurbanipal (r 668-627 BC), the last great Assyrian king.

Kelly Grovier explores how images depicting a staged lion hunt ... which depicts the king in hand-to-claw combat with an erect lion, royal authority rose and fell in direct proportion to the ...

teams up with the royal lion Taka (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). Disney Share In the beautifully rendered and action-jammed “Mufasa: The Lion King” from Walt Disney Pictures, we learn that the OG Lion ...