Sargon II was unexpectedly killed in battle, and after his death, his son and successor relocated the capital from Dur-Sharrukin to the settlement of Nineveh shortly afterwards. In the 1800s ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.

A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...