Following the massacre of 2014, some 200,000 Yazidis still live in refugee camps in Kurdistan, unable to return to their ...
The Assyrian relief panel from the palace of Nimrud escaped destruction by Islamic State because it had been stolen in 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 ...
A rare artifact has been successfully recovered by the Iraqi Embassy in the UK following extraordinary efforts made by the ...
In about 850 BC, an Assyrian king, Assurnasirpal II, chose the city of Nimrud - near present-day Mosul - to build the capital of an empire that would one day reach as far as Egypt. For nearly ...
Highlights to look out for include reliefs from the palaces at Nimrud and Nineveh. A popular favorite is the glazed brick panel of a life-size striding lion from the Processional Way from the ...
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The UN says that Islamic State extremists have destroyed the ancient site of Nimrud almost beyond recognition, and left its ruins vulnerable to thieves and further damage. Wednesday marked the first ...