Archaeologists in northern Iraq have discovered the remains of a massive villa, royal gardens and other structures buried ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project had ...

More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization. But ...

The Directorate of Antiquities in Saladin announced on Wednesday that a German archaeological mission has begun excavations at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Assur (Ashur). Ali Ahmad Abdul Latif, ...

Nimrud's pre-Islamic artefacts were destroyed by jihadists, by Iraqi archaeologists are determited to restore them — Zaid AL-OBEIDI A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, ...