Iraqi archaeologists think that tunnels dug by Islamic State militants under a destroyed shrine in Mosul have revealed the palace of an ancient Assyrian king who ruled some 2,700 years ago.

Ancient 2,600-year-old Mosul palace discovered by archaeologists could collapse under Isis-destroyed shrine. Tunnels beneath Prophet Jonah's tomb in Mosul 'could collapse' imminently after Isis ...

MOSUL, Iraq—A man with no running water in his house made off with two toilets Friday from Saddam Hussein's ornate presidential palace here.

-Written order by Tahsin Pasha, Ottoman Principal Palace Secretary to Ebubekir Hazim Bey, the newly appointed Vali to Mosul, 1898. By 1897, the feud between various Kurdish tribes of the Ottoman ...

The museum at Mosul - like the Iraq Museum in Baghdad - is packed with artefacts of international importance, including world-famous objects dating back 7,000 years or more.

Mosul encompasses what was once Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital and the world’s largest city at the time. ... ISIS built tunnels by hand to loot an underground palace. At Nebi Yunus, ...

In the palace of the Turkish Admiralty on the Golden Horn, representatives of Britain, France and Turkey assembled to settle the thorny problem of Mosul. After much wrangling the conference broke ...

The palace, located near modern-day Mosul, had been partially excavated in the late 1800s by British researchers, and their finds were put on display at the British Museum in London.

The seven carved gypsum panels are believed to originally come from the Southwest Palace at Nineveh, near modern Mosul in northern Iraq, and date to the time of Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 705 ...