Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

Archaeologists uncovered a relief of King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods in ancient Nineveh, offering new insight into Mesopotamian art.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

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 ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had ... Accessed 7 Apr. 2025. "The Palace of Sargon II - The Cour Khorsabad." ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

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 ...

and traces the history of today's Assyrians from the period of fall of the Assyrian Empire until the end of the Ottoman Empire. It took almost three years to produce, involving more than fifty ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief ...