The Penn Museum's Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, led by Dr. Danti, has been instrumental in training local teams, ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project had ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two remarkably well-preserved shrines, among other notable finds, at an ancient temple that was devastated by a fire around 2,600 years ago. The discoveries came to light ...

Preface: from discovery to destruction -- Introduction: masterpieces of ancient ivory -- The city of Nimrud and it's discovery -- Ah, Assyria! -- The Phoenicians: master craftsmen -- Syro-phoenician ...

Nimrud's pre-Islamic artefacts were destroyed by jihadists, by Iraqi archaeologists are determited to restore them — Zaid AL-OBEIDI A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, ...

The ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud was once considered one of the most important archaeological finds in the world.

BAGHDAD (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, numerous civilizations have left their mark on upper Mesopotamia — from Assyrians and Akkadians to Babylonians and Romans. Their ancient, buried cities, ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers began painstaking work on Monday to secure the remains of the 3,000-year-old city of Nimrud, a day after driving out Islamic State militants who overran and ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State extremists trucked away statues as they damaged the irreplaceable remains of an ancient Assyrian capital, a local resident and a top UN official told The Associated Press ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war ...