Library, and manuscripts. Armenian banker ... A night view of the plain of Nineveh. Shereef Bey. Khoorsabad. A discovery. Easter. A death and funeral. Kas Botros and Kas Michael. The Christian ...

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century ... George Smith not only became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned contemporary ...

On a long table were pieces of clay tablets, among the hundreds of thousands that archaeologists had shipped back to London from Nineveh ... of a vast flood in ancient Mesopotamia, complete ...

Photograph by Granger Collection/Age Fotostock Babylon was famous for its Hanging Gardens, which some believe may have actually been in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, where this relief ...