The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released a new video showing what appears to be the terror group's destruction of an ancient city in Iraq. It was a ...

ISIS militants have flattened the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, an archaeological site near the city of Mosul, using heavy military vehicles, AP reports. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of ...

MOSUL, Iraq — Iraqi troops entered a town south of Mosul on Sunday where Islamic State militants destroyed artefacts at a nearby ancient Assyrian archaeological site, while special forces fended off ...

In yet another case of destruction of cultural heritage, ISIS has obliterated the 2,900-year-old ziggurat of Nimrud, a 140-foot-high stepped tower comprised of mud bricks, the Times reports. Nimrud, ...

Ali al-Bayati clambered onto the remains of a giant winged bull statue that once stood as a protector of Iraq's fabled ancient Nimrud before the Islamic State group came. "When you came here before, ...

Iraqi forces won back control of the ancient city of Nimrud from Islamic State militants on November 13. During more than two years in control of the site, the militants destroyed countless artifacts, ...

This 1949 photo taken by British mystery author Agatha Christie shows a statue of a lamassu, a winged bull from Assyrian mythology who guarded the royal court from evil, at the ancient site of Nimrud, ...

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