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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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fragment of an Assyrian-era relief shows the image of a genie holding a pine cone at the ancient site of Nimrud that was ...

Iraqi soldiers recaptured the town of Nimrud on Sunday and the nearby ruins of the 3,000-year-old Assyrian city, which was overrun and bulldozed two years ago by Islamic State militants. A soldier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi soldiers began painstaking work on Monday to secure the remains of the 3,000-year-old ...

A pair of large Assyrian relief sculptures, similar to those recently destroyed by Islamic extremists in Iraq, has been quietly removed from an historic mansion in Scotland and sold abroad for £8m, ...

In a field outside an ancient palace in the Assyrian city of Nimrud, shattered remains of intricate carvings lie broken in the dust. Remnants of elaborate wall panels and colossal statues of winged ...