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Aerial shot of city walls with shamash gate. all the tan color of sand. Courtesy Timothy Harrison et al., “The Shamash Gate, Nineveh: A Window into Two Episodes of Instability,” Iraq (2026), CC-BY 4.0

May 8 Blog

Archaeologists Begin Restoring Shamash Gate

The destruction of ancient cities is often softened into “history”—cataloged, photographed, and safely contained in the past. But a new study of Nineveh’s Shamash Gate […]

Jan 4 Blog

Iraq’s Capital Catastrophe

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Assur, the first capital and spiritual heart of the Assyrians—the great Mesopotamian empire that, in the first millennium B.C.E., subjugated much of the Near East, […]

Jul 1 Blog

The Qurnah Disaster

By: Samuel D. Pfister

In April 1855, a convoy carrying thousands of antiquities from French and British excavations in Mesopotamia set out from the city of Mosul, in modern-day […]

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