A Brief History of Mosul
8th Century B.C.
Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian civilization of King Sennaharib and Ashurbanipal during 8th Century BCE.
1239 A.D.
The Shrine of Imam Yahya Abu Al Qasim was built in 1239.
1261–1263 A.D.
A dipiction of the Siege of Mosul.
1932
Mosul in 1932
Present Day
Dair Mar Elia south of Mosul, Iraq’s oldest monastery of the Assyrian Church of the East, dating from the 6th century. It was destroyed by ISIS in 2014.
Today