The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city ...

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Iraqi American artist reflects on how ...

A statue of a lamassu, an Assyrian protective deity, at the North West Palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud, Iraq. Baghdad -- The Iraqi Minister of Culture, Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani, stated on Sunday that ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments reduced to rubble. Credit... Supported by By Ben Hubbard Photographs and ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient city in North Macedonia that might be Lyncus, the capital of an ancient civilization.

ZIAD ALISSA, a Syrian doctor who lives in France and recently visited Palmyra, one of the many tourists to come to one of Syria’s most stunning heritage sites and ponder how it may fit into the ...

In this engraving of a bas relief excavated from the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, a chaos monster, depicted as a dragon, is driven out of a temple by the Mesopotamian Sun God. Photograph by ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

the mound of Nimrud, where Xenophon saw the great Assyrian city of Calah standing in ruins.” Bell viewed antiquity through the eyes of the Greeks and, in so doing, underestimated how ...

First discovered in the 1960s, archaeologists have spent the last 15 years believing the Gradishte site was a military outpost to defend against Roman attack from the era of King Philip V (221 BCE ...