A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq’s famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments.

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Embassy in London received a rare Assyrian tablet dating back to the period between 883 and 859 BC from the British side. At the ...

The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city ...

"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... About 70 per cent of the collection work has been completed at the Assyrian palace site, with about a year's worth of fieldwork left before ...

Nimrud (Iraq) (AFP ... which had all graced the palace of Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II nearly 3,000 years ago. Seen from above, the pieces of the puzzle gradually come together.

At the Nimrud archeological site, the artifact depicts the upper portion of a winged genie that adorned the northwest palace, according to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The relief on the ...

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the colossal task they face ...

"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... About 70 percent of the collection work has been completed at the Assyrian palace site, with about a year's worth of fieldwork left before ...

In the ninth through seventh centuries BC, the kings of Assyria forged the greatest empire the region had known. Its armies conquered lands from Egypt, the eastern Mediterranean coast, and parts of ...

"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... About 70% of the collection work has been completed at the Assyrian palace site, with about a year's worth of fieldwork left before restoration ...

"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... About 70 percent of the collection work has been completed at the Assyrian palace site, with about a year's worth of fieldwork left before ...