On March 6, 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin.

The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.

IRAQI military forces engaged in the operation to drive Islamic State (Isis) from Mosul confirmed the liberation of the ancient city of Nimrud yesterday. Mosul operational commander Lieutenant-General ...

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 ...

Although King Ashurnasirpal II later moved the capital northward to Kalhu (modern-day Nimrud), Ashur retained its religious significance as the dwelling place of the national god and the burial site ...

Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq in 1850, he assumed that it had been used as a ...

This act was just one of many in their aggressive campaign to obliterate Mosul’s cultural heritage, including the ancient archaeological site of Nimrud and the 12th-century Great Mosque of al-Nuri.