The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 ...

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 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.

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.

Mosul lies 400 km (250 miles) north of Iraq's capital Baghdad on the river Tigris, and is home to up to 2 million people. The city was captured by the Islamic State group in June 2014 and became ...

A fire has been brought under control at Iraq's biggest ballot paper storage depot days after an election recount was ordered. Votes for the eastern district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad ...

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