(705-681 BCE) and which stretches 12km along the city of Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), is being partially bulldozed by private contractors. Activists and locals say they fear the remains will be used as ...

In 1872, Smith was studying a particular tablet from Nineveh (modern Iraq ... written down in what is now Iraq in the seventh century BC, 400 years before the oldest surviving version of the ...