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

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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 ...

More than 500 artefacts were found shattered at the site, located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from Mosul, the city in ...

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 Syrian shrine of Sayedah Zainab drew Iran-backed militiamen from throughout the region. With Assad's fall, they've fled, ...

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 median nominal capital city house price in Australia was just ... government's increasing concern about the safety of troops deployed to Iraq during 2004. The release includes, for the first ...

Archaeologists in Iraq excavated a 2,600-year-old temple ... returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ancient Assyrian Empire, for a third year of excavations ...

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

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...