The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

Ancient Assyrian clay tablets held at the British Museum in London. (Alamy) Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- On Saturday, July 13, the Nineveh Public Library, the oldest public library in Broome County, received a historical marker from the state to celebrate its 124th year. The library ...

Chuck and Ann Bailey sit in front of the set-up they’ve been using to digitize historic records in the genealogy library at the Johnson County Museum of History. The Baileys, who live in Nineveh, have ...

OUR readers who are in the position of being able to recall the “discovery” of Nineveh, which was announced between the years 1845 and 1854, will have no difficulty in remembering that the exhuming of ...

In one of the most memorable scenes in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, the world’s oldest epic, the eponymous hero confronts Humbaba, a monster who guards the Cedar Forest, the realm of the gods at the edge ...