During the 2024 excavation season, researchers uncovered two new shrines within the Temple of Ninurta in Nimrud, Iraq, which was devastated by fire around 2,600 years ago. According to ...

As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ancient Nineveh and Nimrud, two of the world's greatest ancient archaeological treasures, are in serious danger of being lost forever. For the last decade, looting, war damage, lack ...

Government forces recaptured Nimrud as part of a wider assault on Mosul, the last major IS stronghold in Iraq. Warplanes bombed IS positions in Mosul's airport, on the southern outskirts ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq, he got help from ...

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

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

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A stone tablet with cuneiform writing wreaked by the ISIS group at the ancient site of Nimrud, Iraq. Source: AAP When asked to assess the damage made to ancient and cultural sites, Mr Mekhail ...

ancient Assyrian artifacts located in the historic Nimrud and Tikrit were desecrated or outright destroyed by ISIS militants. With the nightmarish circumstances faced by Assyrian Christians deepening ...