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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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"ISIS continues to defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity," the ministry said in a statement reported on CNN.com. "They violated the ancient city of Nimrud and bulldozed its ancient ...

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.

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...

Studies on the remains of horses found at ancient burial sites in Russia and Lithuania show ... May 3, 2024 — Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows ...

Tucked away in Italy’s boot, in the Basilicata region, Matera is known as the ‘City of Stone’ due to its ancient cave network. It is one of the oldest cities in Europe and according to some ...