Michael Rakowitz, "Panel H-13, Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud," from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (2020) Middle Eastern food packaging and newspapers, with glue on panel, 90 1⁄2 ...

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, ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Assyrian palace in Nimrud found a door sill, carved ivory and ostrich eggshells revealing royal life. Photo from Michael Danti Precious objects made of ostrich ...

The remains of the reconstructed entrance to the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II. In 2015, ISIS detonated explosives in this building. To protect original fragments, they are now covered in geotextile.

Nimrud's pre-Islamic artefacts were destroyed by jihadists, by Iraqi archaeologists are determited to restore them — Zaid AL-OBEIDI A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, ...

Michael Rakowitz, detail “H-17,” from “Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud,” from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (2020). Commissioned by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at ...

A door sill from the palace of King Adad-Nirari III was likely excavated by Austen Henry Layard . Below: the Ishtar Temple and ziggurat prior to Isis destruction at Nimrud. (Courtesy Michael Danti) ...

On October 24, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art opens a new exhibition, Assyria to America. For the first time since their removal from modern-day Iraq, the Assyrian reliefs from the Northwest palace ...