When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal ... Ashurbanipal's palace showing him in a chariot; a fragment of the ...

Har Megiddo (pictured) in Northern Israel, (הר מגידו) rendered Armageddon in the Bible is the site of a former Bible battle – ...

Witnesses and officials in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk say a man with an axe has attacked a new year parade by Assyrian Christians and wounded three people DOHUK, Iraq -- The annual parade by ...

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Witnesses said the attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran toward the crowd shouting Islamic slogans. DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...