The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In one of the most memorable scenes in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, the world’s oldest epic, the eponymous hero confronts Humbaba, a monster who guards the Cedar Forest, the realm of the gods at the edge ...