The newly discovered relief depicts King Ashurbanipal in a divine conference with two preeminent Assyrian deities.

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

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

This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris ... These figures suggest that a large winged solar disk was originally mounted above the relief, explains Aaron Schmitt.

A team of archaeologists began working at the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal, “the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire,” in Nineveh in ... that a massive winged sun disk was ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, located near the modern Iraqi ... “These figures suggest that a massive winged sun disk was originally mounted above the relief,” explains Aaron Schmitt.

This is a cast of a section of a relief wall panel from Ashurbanipal's palace at Nineveh showing a dying lioness. The lioness supports herself on her front legs, dragging her limp hindparts. She opens ...

Austen Henry Layard (later known as “the Lion of Nineveh”) led the digs, but it was his less celebrated colleague Hormuzd Rassam who made the most important discoveries. Wisnom also gives ...

One year ago a man took a pneumatic drill to the statue of a winged bull at the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh ...

Show more Kanishk Tharoor goes on the murky trail of the missing Genie of Nimrud – a huge, 3,000-year-old carved figure that once protected a palace; the Winged-Bull of Nineveh, an Assyrian ...

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