Smith spent hours at the museum studying the clay tablets and teaching himself to decipher them. Rebuilt in the 20th century, the Nergal Gate was originally built in Nineveh in the seventh century ...

"Nineveh and Mosul are the two names of one entity." A short video was released by IS in 2015, in which they showed themselves using sledgehammers and drills to break up some of the museum's ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and ... including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental ...

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Nineveh, where this relief, now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

(705-681 BCE) and which stretches 12km along the city of Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), is being partially bulldozed by private contractors. Activists and locals say they fear the remains will be used as ...