Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world – her own world came crashing down. In the middle of the civil war that would bring ...

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the colossal task they face ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient ... work by Iraqi archaeologists has already yielded more than 35,000 fragments. The archaeologists have been carefully reassembling bas-reliefs, sculptures ...