No man entertaining such opinions can retain them after reading Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, a work recently republished in excellent sty le by the great American house of Harper Bros, of this city.

2,700 years ago, Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Researchers from the University of Heildelberg have made a spectacular discovery in the palace of King Assurbanipal. During ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists ...

Nineveh established itself as one of the most influential cultural capitals in the ancient world under King Sennacherib, around 700 BCE. The Assyrian Empire, already battered by a civil war, fell ...