"For many many years, the common thought was that this area was completely empty from structures and other buildings and was probably occupied by gardens and orchards. / It is quite the opposite. This ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

Beneath layers of earth in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh, a team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has uncovered one of the most significant finds in decades in the region. The ...

German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery in Iraq. During excavations in the ancient metropolis of Nineveh, a team from Heidelberg University came across large parts of a monumental ...

This image, taken in April 2017 during a UNESCO mission to Nineveh, which was heavily destroyed and excavated by ISIS in the "second" Fall of Nineveh in 2015. (UNESCO) On this day, 2,632 years ago, ...

More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization. But ...

A Penn archeology team has uncovered 2,700-year-old rock carvings from the ancient city of Nineveh, which is located in the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. The carvings were uncovered by the ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Masaki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring battle ...

We here in southern Illinois are about to be at the center of the umbra for the eclipse of a lifetime. I've been waiting for this one ever since I heard about it when I was growing up here 48 years ...

It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.