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, 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library at Nineveh, a treasure house of Assyrian ideas from the 7th Century BC. Helen of Troy - Woman's Hour Helen of Troy has excited man's imagination for ...