Scholars initially compared the losses to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria ... By 863 B.C., Assyria’s capital moved from nearby Nimrud to Nineveh, but kings were still enthroned ...

A particularly rich find was the library of Ashurbanipal, last great king of Assyria: in the 1850s ... unearthed it in the ruins of Nineveh. They shipped 100,000 tablets and fragments home ...

Ashurbanipal assembled his library at Nineveh in the seventh century BC. Today known as Mosul in Iraq, Nineveh was then the most splendid – and largest – city on Earth, and the seat of the ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

Celebrations of Akitu - which take place on April 1 - are largely centered on the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac community’s ancestral homeland of the Nineveh Plains and Duhok.

Now, an Israeli researcher has harnessed computational technology to showcase how the scribes compiling the documents made ...

The cities and villages of the Nineveh Plains, once inhabited mainly by Chaldean, Syrian and Assyrian Christians, had emptied due to the occupation of the Islamic State that was gradually driven out ...

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in the Iraqi city of Dohuk to mark their new year was marred Tuesday when an axe-wielding man attacked the procession and wounded ...

Supporters of the Fairhope Public Library and some city leaders defended the library Monday days after the state’s library board voted to cut its funding. The funding cut generated national ...