One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information ... site of Kurd Qaburstan is the ancient city of regional capital Qabra, but much of the city’s history ...

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After Sargon II died in 705 BC, the capital was moved to Nineveh, and the city fell into oblivion. In the 19th and 20th centuries, French and American archaeological missions uncovered areas of ...

A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...

the city in northern Iraq where IS established the capital of their self-declared "caliphate." Meticulous excavation work by Iraqi archaeologists has already yielded more than 35,000 fragments.

The ancient city once served as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. A dais uncovered by archaeologists at the site of Nimrud, Iraq. The ancient city once served as the capital of the Assyrian Empire.

Archaeologists are restoring ancient treasures in Nimrud, an Assyrian city in Iraq, nearly a decade after its destruction by ...