A fire tore through a wedding venue in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 93 people and leaving 100 more injured, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan. The fire struck a ...

After 2,700 years, the walls and gates of ancient Nineveh can still be seen near the banks of the Tigris river just opposite the modern city of Mosul in Iraq. In ancient times, it was the capital of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spectacular find: Monumental images of gods discovered at Nineveh in Iraq German archaeologists have made a spectacular discovery ...

In the first century AD, a Roman scholar named Josephus, who was both revered and allegedly known to get a little creative with his facts, recounted tales of the great King Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace ...

On August 6, 2014, after an attack on Yazidis in Sinjar, Daesh came after Christians in Nineveh Plains. Over night, Daesh captured 13 villages and forced thousands of Christians to flee their homes ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in archaeology, ...

There have been two solar eclipses: The first occurred on August 21st, 2017, and the second one will occur on April 8th, 2024. It appears that these two eclipses mark a giant "X marks the spot" on ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Nineveh Provincial Council on Wednesday ousted its head Ahmed al-Hasud, accusing ...

A March 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of the U.S. with the paths of totality for the total solar eclipses in 2017 and 2024 and the annular eclipse in 2023. “Not only does ...

Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by Islamic State in 2016, recently uncovered 2,700-year-old Assyrian reliefs. Featuring war ...