When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Deep inside looters' tunnels dug beneath the Tomb of Jonah in the ancient Iraq city of Nineveh, ...

For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began ...