Close up of the giant statue to the god Nabu stood at the entrance of the Temple of Nabu which is now housed in the Iraq Museum in Iraq. (Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP / CC BY-SA 4.0) Nestled in the ...

The excavation was announced by Iraqi authorities last week. (all photos by Mustafa Faraj, courtesy Mustafa Faraj and Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage) A team of French and Iraqi ...

The sculpture of the Assyrian deity Lamassu was commissioned during the reign of King Sargon II, who ruled from 722 to 705 BC. (AFP pic) A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster ...

Ancient carvings of an Assyrian king honouring the gods while surrounded by mythical beasts have been safely unearthed in Iraq after being threatened by ISIS. ISIS seized the city of Mosul in 2014 and ...

The 2700-year-old alabaster statue depicting the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu was found in northern Iraq on October 24, AFP reports, in almost one piece. The massive sculpture was almost entirely ...

It was from Assyria, known as Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates) that the first civilization began, and gave rise to an intellectual thought process that helped build scientific as well as ...

TEL ARBOUSH, Syria – The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colors of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the park. With feathers or gold tiaras on their ...

TEL ARBOUSH, Syria (AP) — The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colors of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the park. With feathers or gold tiaras on ...