The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors. A room in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian ...

Ancient Assyrian clay tablets held at the British Museum in London. (Alamy) Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major ...

In 1849, English explorer Austen Henry Layard discovered a series of clay tablets in the ruins of Nineveh. Once upon a time, Nineveh was a flourishing city and the capital of the mighty Assyrian ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- On Saturday, July 13, the Nineveh Public Library, the oldest public library in Broome County, received a historical marker from the state to celebrate its 124th year. The library ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library at Nineveh, a treasure house of Assyrian ideas from the 7th Century BC. In 1849 a young English adventurer called Henry Layard started digging into a small ...

OUR readers who are in the position of being able to recall the “discovery” of Nineveh, which was announced between the years 1845 and 1854, will have no difficulty in remembering that the exhuming of ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...