The ancient kingdom of Assyria was located on the upper end of the Tigris River, an area that today is divided between Turkey and Iraq. The kingdom reached its height in the mid-600s BC, when the ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This ancient superpower was the largest empire of ...

From around 2500 BC, Assyria emerged as a dominant force in Mesopotamia, evolving from a city-state into a powerful empire that exerted influence across the ancient world. Its geographic location ...

Nineveh, located in Mosul in northern Iraq, was the Assyrian empire’s urban center, and archaeologists have been researching the site for centuries. In the late 1800s, British researchers ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...