In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire ... Assyria’s civilization back to life in the 1840s and ’50s is ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ... as the restoration brings back to life rich details carved in stone millennia ago. Another artefact shows ...