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

MOSUL, Iraq – 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 ...

Archaeologists claim they have unearthed a 600BC palace underneath a holy shrine ... is the tomb of the Prophet Jonah – in eastern Mosul. But it was the Islamic extremists who first started ...

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

Yet the battle for Mosul continues and, until the guns fall silent in the ravaged city, work is unlikely to start on saving an underground palace still in sniper range of Isis positions on the west ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

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. "Now I can sit and (defecate) where that horrible ...

In the 1980s, the area was flooded following the construction of the Mosul dam. The palace was in use for a long period, Dr Ivana Puljiz, of the University of Tubingen, said, with two phases of ...

Mosul is the second-largest city in modern Iraq ... “They are used in pairs to protect the gateways to the palace,” he said. Created by the Factum Foundation, which uses cutting edge ...

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 ...