The Citadel has become a bona fide tourist destination, attracting international visitors who often arrive with empty suitcases ready to be filled with American brands at outlet prices. You might hear ...

What it tells us about the past: This carved relief from Nimrud, a major city of the ancient Assyrian Empire in present-day Iraq, regularly drifts around the internet as purported evidence for ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

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

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...

Archaeologists excavating ruins of ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Nineveh found big first-of-its-kind relief showing king with deities, university said.

The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods.