A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

Fragment of the discovered relief. (Aaron Schmitt) A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ...

A team of German archaeologists excavating in the ancient city of Nineveh, located near the modern Iraqi capital of Mosul, have announced an "extraordinary" discovery within the throne room of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spectacular find: Monumental images of gods discovered at Nineveh in Iraq German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery ...

It’s a remarkably rare discovery both because of its size and what it depicts. Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King ...

Ancient Assyrian clay tablets held at the British Museum in London. (Alamy) Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University Sifting ...

More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization. But ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief dating back to the 7th century BCE in the throne room of the North Palace of ...