Reopening graves and interacting with the dead was considered a dangerous act,” but the 900-year-old burial mound was tampered with anyway.

Welcome to a bonus episode of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Series! Today we're tackling the hunt for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Were they actually in Nineveh instead?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series.Part I was published on Saturday, May 31 and can be found at this link.. Flush with excitement after his 1860 find of a mysterious stone with ...

2,700 years ago, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...

Two deaths in Mounds View are being investigated as a murder-suicide, police said Tuesday as they identified the people involved.. Aaron Winfield Johnson, 48, of Minneapolis, died from multiple ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A monumental stone relief depicting King Ashurbanipal, flanked by the deities Ashur and Ishtar, was uncovered in the throne room of Nineveh’s North Palace.

The mounds are dozens of little hills scattered across a wide expanse of grassland. ... Try out falafel, shawarma and tabouleh from Nineveh Assyrian. Grab street tacos from Tacos California. Once ...

It consisted of vast, flat mounds whose featurelessness had astonished British archaeologist Austin Henry Layard when he first saw them in 1840. Kouyunjik, the largest of these, was 40 feet high ...

Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red planet that likely sculpted the towering formations.. More than 15,000 mounds jut skyward ...