The settlement is located at the site of the present-day village of Khorsabad in northern Iraq. Sargon II was unexpectedly ... Sharrukin to the settlement of Nineveh shortly afterwards.

Ashurbanipal built a new palace, now known as the Northern Palace ... Click a button to explore other objects in the timeline Kuyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq ...

The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and ...

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...

Could it be, then, that the famous gardens were in Nineveh all along ... Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of its royal palace. Like his predecessors, he ...

Iraq held its long-overdue provincial elections in December across 15 provinces, excluding the Kurdistan Region. Nineveh, a multi-ethnic province and home to the Yazidi community, saw a 52 percent ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.