It was discovered in 1854 during excavations at the ancient site of Nineveh, located in present-day Mosul, Iraq. The excavations were led by ... the most significant being Ashurbanipal’s palace, which ...
Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...
One, Austen Henry Layard, was the son of an English colonial civil servant. At age 22, he had fled the drudgery of clerkship in his uncle’s law office for a life of adventure on the backroads of ...
Ashurbanipal’s servant with a dog, amid lion-hunts. From Room C, North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq, 645-635 BCE. British Museum, London. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia ...
Two decades after Ashurbanipal’s death, Nineveh, the largest city in the world, was sacked by the Babylonians and the royal palace razed to ground ... On a modern map this would be Iraq, Syria and the ...
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 ...
The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and ...
An EWTN News Special” delves into the roots of Christianity in Iraq and its history dating back nearly 2,000 years.