Release Date: October 26, 2001 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ancient Nineveh and Nimrud, two of the world's greatest ancient archaeological treasures, are in serious danger of being lost ...

A Penn archeology team has uncovered 2,700-year-old rock carvings from the ancient city of Nineveh, which is located in the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. The carvings were uncovered by the ...

Baghdad -- Nineveh Department of Antiquities and Heritage announced on Sunday that three countries are carrying out archaeological excavations in the governorate, and decided a date to open the ...

Nineveh - Mashki Gate. (Omar Siddeeq Yousif) Nineveh was the last capital of the Assyrian Empire, as well as its most populous city. It has even been claimed that Nineveh was the most populated city ...

Stunning ancient rock carvings that portray an Assyrian king paying homage to his gods amid a procession of mythical animals have been unearthed in the Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq, after ...

There’s nothing like watching ISIS blow up the ancient city of Nineveh to make archaeologists, conservationists, and historians feel helpless. Yet many have responded to ISIS’s destruction ...

“This is a quite unique archaeological finding, because it is the first time in northern Mesopotamia that archaeologists are able to identify a wine production area,” said Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, ...

After the destruction of the treasures of the Mosul Cultural Museum in Iraq shown in the Islamic State (IS) video released on February 26, 2015, scholars focused their discussion on the inventory of ...