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 ...

Nineveh lived only in ancient texts. It was the grand capital of the Assyrian Empire and the largest city in the world at its ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...