In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Collectively valued at $500,000, the Mesopotamian relics are believed to have been looted and at least one was linked to the ...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office said the objects had been identified as illicit during an investigation of an art ...

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

Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King ...

Temperatures are soaring on the salt flats of Basra, exacerbated by climate change. But the local saltworks are turning that ...

By bna Cairo Bureau The Embassy of Iraq in Washington announced the recovery of three rare artefacts from New York, marking ...

Archaeologists uncovered a relief of King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods in ancient Nineveh, offering new insight into ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...