Long ago, an ancient city known as Dur-Sharrukin briefly served ... his son and successor moved the capital to the settlement of Nineveh. In the following decades, Dur-Sharrukin was gradually ...

The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and ...

The construction of the ancient capital of Assyria—Khorsabad ... After Sargon II died in 705 BC, the capital was moved to Nineveh, and the city fell into oblivion. In the 19th and 20th centuries ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire. He describes a hunting scene that resembles no artwork ...

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...

an ancient Assyrian heritage site is being bulldozed by heavy earth-moving machinery. (705-681 BCE) and which stretches 12km along the city of Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), is being partially bulldozed ...

Built during the reign of King Sennacherib (705-681 BCE), the wall stretches for 12 kilometres within the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, which is located on the outskirts of modern-day Mosul.

"What makes this exhibit significant," explains, Michael Danti, Director of Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, "is that our excavations inside of one of the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh ...