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

But further examination of the smaller objects which were found in the ruins of the Assyrian palace at Nineveh resulted in the discovery of a large collection of “tiles,” as they were first ...

At the end of the 19th century, British researchers had already examined the northern palace of ancient Nineveh for the first time and discovered large reliefs, which are now on display in the ...

In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, the king built a magnificent palace known as the North Palace. He decorated it with wall after wall of sculptural reliefs recounting his ...

Ashurbanipal is in his chariot driven by a charioteer and accompanied by various servants in a relief from the King's Palace in Nineveh. Bridgeman/ACI Ashurbanipal was proud of his ability to read ...

The excavations are part of the Heidelberg Nineveh Project ... and restored reliefs from the throne room of the southwest palace and worked on the Nergal Gate. The most recent excavations at ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief dating back to the 7th century BCE in the throne room of the North Palace of ...

by Senacherib, whose successors lived there until its destruction in 612 BC. The city wall of Nineveh has a circumference of over 12 km. And six gates have been excavated. On the mound of Kuyunjik the ...

During excavations in the ancient metropolis of Nineveh, a team from Heidelberg University came across large parts of a monumental relief. It shows King Assurbanipal (668 to 627 BC), the last ruler of ...

and its magnificent royal palace. Austen Henry Layard (later known as “the Lion of Nineveh”) led the digs, but it was his less celebrated colleague Hormuzd Rassam who made the most important ...