The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... surrounds Babylon when texts by Greek and Roman authors often confused Assyrians with Babylonians. When the first-century B.C. writer Diodorus ...

ACE spread from the Assyrian city Arbela (in North Iraq; Arbela means "Four Gods" in Assyrian) to the surrounding areas of Persia, Syria, and Iraq, and later became centered in Seleucia-Ctesiphon ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two remarkably well-preserved shrines, among other notable finds, at an ancient temple that was devastated by a fire around 2,600 years ago. The discoveries came to ...

Thabet Mekhail is working tirelessly to restore and rebuild ancient Assyrian artefacts that were damaged and destroyed during the devastating ISIS occupation of Mosul in Iraq. Iraq’s second ...

found in the city of Nineveh in 1840, which is believed to be from the palace of ancient King Senncharib of Assyria. The Museum is open every day and the exhibition is free.

BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities announced Friday the recovery of an ancient Assyrian panel from Britain. The artifact was formally handed over to ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire ... located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from Mosul, the city in northern Iraq where IS established the capital of their self-declared ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire ... located about 30km from Mosul, the city in northern Iraq where ISIS established the capital of their self-declared “caliphate”.