S ifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city. They sifted carefully through the king’s once-grand throne room ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...

The remains—missed by archaeologists for more than a century—were found in an earth-filled pit in the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE) in the ancient city of ...

An extravagant residence on Russia's Black Sea coast purportedly used by Russian President Vladimir Putin as his "palace" has been refashioned to include a church equipped with a throne, according ...