Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have uncovered significant sections of a large relief featuring depictions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2022, Aaron Schmitt and his team from the University of Heidelberg have been excavating the Kuyunjik mound in the central sector of the North Palace built by King Ashurbanipal. The excavations ...

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 ...