A carved stone slab standing roughly six feet tall and bearing royal inscriptions from ancient Nineveh has given researchers new material to reconstruct how Neo-Assyrian kings built, marked, and later ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spectacular find: Monumental images of gods discovered at Nineveh in Iraq German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery ...

The stele has since been moved to the Inspectorate’s headquarters to undergo initial restoration work so that it can be studied in depth. A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the ...

A rare 2,600-year-old Assyrian monument has been found at the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq. The discovery is a major success for an area where Islamic State militants (ISIS) deliberately destroyed ...

More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization. But ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

Members of ISIS have destroyed two large gates in Iraq's ancient city of Nineveh, which once served as the capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire. The gates are two of 15 built along the city wall around ...

A six-foot Assyrian stone slab carved for a king rose from the ruins of Nineveh. (Essi Sani/Pexels) A carved stone slab standing roughly six feet tall and bearing royal inscriptions from ancient ...

A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal found in Iraq's Nineveh province, July 17, 2026. (Iraq's General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage) A fragment ...