Three Christian political parties on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi and Nineveh Governor Abdul Qader Al-Dakhil to halt ongoing land distribution measures in the Nineveh Plains, a ...

A large stone slab has emerged at the Shamash Gate of Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital near modern-day Mosul in northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a couple of minutes on April 8, 2024, in a narrow, curved band across North America, one of the greatest spectacles in nature will occur: a total solar eclipse. Being in that path at exactly the ...

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 ...

The stele has since been moved to the Inspectorate’s headquarters to undergo initial restoration work so that it can be studied in depth. A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the ...

The phrase “world’s oldest library” can refer to several institutions, depending on whether age, continuous operation, or surviving contents matter most. For the earliest known systematically ...

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 ...

Consequently, there is no such thing as a permanent empire — only a permanent God.