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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 ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

is one of the world's earliest known cities and is a mega-site with a layout similar to Nineveh or Nimrud. Meet the archaeologists training to save Iraq's heritage Following the discovery of ...

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 ...

The “Bull of Nimrud,” which stood at the site and is ... The bull’s return to Iraq follows a high-profile restitution to the country in June, when Italy handed a tablet engraved with ...

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 leader of the British School of Archaeology's excavation of the ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq; Becker reading ancient Sumerian text; description of ancient and contemporary uses of the palm tree; ...

Peopled with animated figures, the video gives a feeling of actually walking through the palace built in Nimrud, in northern Iraq, in 650 BCE by King Ashurbanipal II. Earlier this month, Islamic State ...