A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Archaeologists uncovered a relief of King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods in ancient Nineveh, offering new insight into ...

The newly discovered relief depicts King Ashurbanipal in a divine conference with two preeminent Assyrian deities.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

The relief shows King Ashurbanipal flanked by the god Ashur and the goddess Ishtar, the patroness of Nineveh. Following the deities are a fish genius, who grants the gods and the sovereign ...

"This is quite enigmatic." During archaeological excavation underneath the palace built by King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, Schmitt and his team found the ...

A team of archaeologists began working at the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal, “the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire,” in Nineveh in 2022, Heidelberg University said in a May 13 ...