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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...