The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The self-styled King of the World relaxes in a luxurious garden after one of his greatest victories, his wife seated at his feet, as musicians pluck harps and birds flutter in the trees overhead. And ...

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 ...

German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery in Iraq. During excavations in the ancient metropolis of Nineveh, a team from Heidelberg University came across large parts of a monumental ...