The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
Ancient Assyrian clay tablets held at the British Museum in London. (Alamy) Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major ...
Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief dating back to the 7th century BCE in the throne room of the North Palace of ...
Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war ...
A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...