After Sargon II died in 705 BC, the capital was moved to Nineveh, and the city fell into oblivion. In the 19th and 20th centuries, French and American archaeological missions uncovered areas of ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...

Click a button to explore other objects in the timeline Kuyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq ...

Photograph by Granger Collection/Age Fotostock Babylon was famous for its Hanging Gardens, which some believe may have actually been in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, where this relief ...

The Nineveh International Film Festival in Mosul showcases 398 films from 15 countries, marking a cultural revival for the ...

Of particular interest were the discoveries that Austen Henry Layard and other archaeologists had recently made at the site of Nineveh, near Mosul in modern-day Iraq ... of the city’s power ...

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From 2014 to 2017, at least 5,000 were brutally killed, while 6,000 women and children were enslaved; hundreds of thousands ...

The al-Hadba minaret in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2017. UNESCO has been restoring the minaret for years. It was reopened in a ceremony on Wednesday.