Long ago, an ancient city known as Dur-Sharrukin briefly served ... his son and successor moved the capital to the settlement of Nineveh. In the following decades, Dur-Sharrukin was gradually ...

The construction of the ancient capital of Assyria—Khorsabad ... After Sargon II died in 705 BC, the capital was moved to Nineveh, and the city fell into oblivion. In the 19th and 20th centuries ...

No ancient city was so desired and feared ... he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire. He describes a hunting scene that resembles no artwork ...

In June 2014, ISIS launched an all-out offensive in northern and western Iraq, seizing large swathes of territory, including ...

Sennacherib moved the rapidly expanding kingdom's capital to Nineveh. The ancient site is now encircled by the modern city of East Mosul. Preserving Assyria. $13-$18 (free for members and kids 5 and ...

Recovered from Nineveh ... the city’s power include the Library of Ashurbanipal, where the Gilgamesh tablets were stored. JANE SWEENEY/GETTY IMAGES The tablets were in Akkadian, an ancient ...

"What makes this exhibit significant," explains, Michael Danti, Director of Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, "is that our excavations inside of one of the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh ...

including the city of Mosul in Nineveh province, which the group declared as the capital of its proclaimed Caliphate between Iraq and Syria. During its rule, ISIS targeted ancient sites ...