In the palace of the Turkish Admiralty on the Golden Horn, representatives of Britain, France and Turkey assembled to settle the thorny problem of Mosul. After much wrangling the conference broke ...

Mosul, Iraq. The date was Dec. 21, 2004, four days before Christmas, and the air was cool and crisp, allowing us to soak up the desert winter weather before the unbearable spring and summer heat ...

Destruction by ISIS revealed new information. In 2014, Mosul fell under the control of ISIS (also called Daesh). During its three-year reign, the Islamist militants destroyed artifacts and ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Fadel Mohammed Khodr, head of the Iraqi archaeological team, said in a statement that the carvings were likely taken from Sennacherib’s palace and used as construction material for the gate.

Babylonian and Medes forces incinerated the Southwest Palace during their sack of Nineveh in 612 B.C. Archeologists have since recovered many sculptures lost during the conflict, but others fell ...

The seven carved gypsum panels are believed to originally come from the Southwest Palace at Nineveh, near modern Mosul in northern Iraq, and date to the time of Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 705 ...

Right now, the site for the Gate, which lies about 600 metres from the Palace, are grassy, undeveloped fields, strewn with rocks and archeological remains. Across the busy road from the site is ...

In the late 1800s, British researchers explored the city’s North Palace, which was built during Ashurbanipal’s reign, between 668 and 627 B.C.E., and found some large, detailed reliefs. But ...

Discover what has been achieved within UNESCO's flagship initiative ‘Revive the Spirit of Mosul’. The pictures highlight the impact of the project ‘Reviving Mosul and Basra Old Cities’ funded by the ...

Ancient city with ‘massive’ palace emerges from lake in drought-stricken Iraq By Aspen Pflughoeft. Updated September 02, 2022 9:16 AM. ... The waters of the Mosul dam ...