In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

5000 B.C. (-250) The earliest known settlement of Nineveh. In 1932, Sir Max Mallowan, the eminent British archaeologist, dug a deep sounding which reached virgin soil ninety feet below the top of the ...

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

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has ... Ashurbanipal was the first of his dynasty to have a real scholarly interest in its contents. He actively sought to add new texts, and even ...