The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city ...

The city of Nimrud, known as Calah in the Bible, became the capital of the neo-Assyrian Empire in 883 B.C., under King Ashurnasirpal II. At the end of the seventh century B.C., the empire ...

is the later Arab name for an ancient Assyrian city located south of Mosul on the river Tigris in northern Mesopotamia. Archeologists believe that the city was given the name Nimrud in modern ...

"They violated the ancient city of Nimrud and bulldozed its ancient ruins." Created for WCMA by a local company, Learning Sites Inc., the virtual record is believed to be the only such record of the ...

"There are cities such as the ancient city of Nimrud that has been destroyed by almost 80 per cent". "Some of the artefacts such as the Lamassu were hard to restore as they were shattered into ...

Tello, the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, is one of the world's earliest known cities and is a mega-site with a layout similar to Nineveh or Nimrud. Meet the ...

An Islamic State militant participates in the destruction of ancient ruins near the city of Nimrud, Iraq, in a video released by the Islamic State. Last month, the jihadist extremist group the Islamic ...

A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to erase it. Priceless artifacts from the Assyrian Empire were destroyed during the Isis occupation of ...

Depicting a winged genie, the remarkable stone bas-relief once adorned the magnificent Northwest Palace at Nimrud, the Assyrian Empire’s ancient capital, considered a cradle of world civilisation.

Mosul was built near the remains of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh ... These included Nimrud and the desert city of Palmyra. After two and a half years under control of IS, the sandy ...

In 2015, Islamic State militants devastated the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, using bulldozers to raze the site. In 2020, Congress passed a COVID-19 relief bill known as the ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in a gesture former ...