Following the massacre of 2014, some 200,000 Yazidis still live in refugee camps in Kurdistan, unable to return to their ...

An ancient Assyrian artefact stolen from one of the world’s most significant archaeological sites has been returned to Iraq ...

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 ...

Archeologists believe that the city was given the name Nimrud in modern times after the Biblical Nimrod, a legendary hunting hero. The city was identified as the Biblical city of Calah (Kalhu ...

A rare artifact has been successfully recovered by the Iraqi Embassy in the UK following extraordinary efforts made by the ...

Dr St John Simpson, a senior Middle East curator and archaeologist at the British Museum, said: "It's the largest antiquity believed to have been repatriated to Iraq in the past 20 years, and very ...

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Yet, it also holds special value for Iraq’s Assyrian Christians. Nineveh and surrounding areas such as Nimrud and Alqosh have ...

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 ...

Terrible acts of vandalism followed, with videos released by the group showing its members smashing artefacts at Mosul Museum and blowing up parts of the site of the Assyrian capital of Nimrud.

The group sparked global outrage by destroying many of the region's most famous archaeological sites, from the Syrian desert city of Palmyra to the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in Iraq, and looting ...