The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient ... The first dig of this ancient site was conducted by a British mission over 150 years ago, which uncovered many reliefs. Many Ancient ...

Abandoned Saddam Palace in north Iraq, left unfinished after the Gulf war. Such palaces were built partially with stones from nearby Assyrian churches and villages. Modern Chaldean-Assyrian church in ...

A photograph shared to social media in March 2025 showed a large, partially buried headless statue alongside excavators. With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — An ancient Assyrian palace, part of a 3,000-year-old Iraqi archaeological ... Other tablets, reliefs and objects from the Nimrud dig went to Amherst and Dartmouth, to the Museum of Fine ...

The archaeologists have been carefully reassembling bas-reliefs, sculptures and decorated slabs depicting mythical creatures, which had all graced the palace of Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II ...

Sculptor Thabet Mekhail standing next to an Assyrian monument destroyed by ISIS in Mosul. Source: Supplied He said many artefacts in the palace were stolen by ISIS fighters and sold through the ...

This scenario parallels later Jerusalem, where eighth-century BCE levels reveal a surge of ivory carvings and exotic goods once the city became a prosperous Assyrian vassal. The archaeological ...