filmed the destruction of priceless artifacts inside the Mosul Museum. This was part of a broader campaign to erase Mosul's rich cultural heritage, including the ancient city of Nimrud and the Great ...

In April 2015, the IS group released a video of its fighters destroying monuments in Nimrud before planting explosives around a site and blowing it up. Statues in Mosul's museum were also ...

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A stone tablet with cuneiform writing wreaked by the ISIS group at the ancient site of Nimrud, Iraq ... are working on the conservation of the Mosul museum," he said. "Once the Mosul museum ...

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Release Date: October 26, 2001 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ancient Nineveh and Nimrud, two of the world's greatest ancient archaeological treasures, are in serious danger of being lost ...

like the once-celebrated Mosul Museum and ancient Palmyra in neighbouring Syria. The jihadist group was defeated in Iraq in 2017, and the restoration project in Nimrud began a year later ...