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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 ...

In the dust and rubble are pieces of 3,000-year-old artifacts that historians could restore. But the site in unguarded and 50 archaeologists are trapped in Mosul You can save this article by ...

NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) — Nearly a month into the fight to retake Mosul, government forces pushed Islamic State militants out of nearby Nimrud, home to some of Iraq’s richest archaeological treasures. And ...

The militants’ fanaticism devastated one of the most important archaeological sites in the Middle East. But more than a month after the militants were driven out, Nimrud is still being ravaged, its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...