Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq in 1850, he assumed that it had been used as a ...

Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq in 1850, he assumed that it had been used as a ...

This act was just one of many in their aggressive campaign to obliterate Mosul’s cultural heritage, including the ancient archaeological site of Nimrud and the 12th-century Great Mosque of al-Nuri.

Crystal Palace have rejected a bid from Tottenham for defender Marc Guehi thought to be about £70m. The England international, who attracted interest from Newcastle in the summer, has 18 months ...

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Embassy in London received a rare Assyrian tablet dating back to the period between 883 and 859 BC from the British side. At the ...