Members of ISIS have destroyed two large gates in Iraq's ancient city of Nineveh, which once served as the capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire. The gates are two of 15 built along the city wall around ...

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 ...

An Iraqi worker excavates a rock-carving relief at the Mashki Gate, one of the entrances to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, on the outskirts of Mosul. (AFP) Last year, a team excavating the ...

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 ...

German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery in Iraq. During excavations in the ancient metropolis of Nineveh, a team from Heidelberg University came across large parts of a monumental ...