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 ...

Archeologists believe that the city was given the name Nimrud in modern times after the Biblical Nimrod, a legendary hunting hero. The city was identified as the Biblical city of Calah (Kalhu ...

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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 ...

Following the massacre of 2014, some 200,000 Yazidis still live in refugee camps in Kurdistan, unable to return to their ...

Terrible acts of vandalism followed, with videos released by the group showing its members smashing artefacts at Mosul Museum and blowing up parts of the site of the Assyrian capital of Nimrud.

The group sparked global outrage by destroying many of the region's most famous archaeological sites, from the Syrian desert city of Palmyra to the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in Iraq, and looting ...

Throughout their history, which goes back to around 2600 B.C., the Assyrians had built a succession of capital cities, beginning with Ashur, then Kalkhu, the ancient name for Nimrud, and then Dur ...

In about 850 BC, an Assyrian king, Assurnasirpal II, chose the city of Nimrud - near present-day Mosul - to build the capital of an empire that would one day reach as far as Egypt. For nearly ...

A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to erase it. Priceless artifacts from the Assyrian Empire were destroyed during the Isis occupation of ...

Depicting a winged genie, the remarkable stone bas-relief once adorned the magnificent Northwest Palace at Nimrud, the ...

Inscriptions from a temple built by neo-Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II, who ruled Nimrud from 883 to 859 B.C., south of present-day Mosul, Iraq: “I captured many troops alive: from time to time ...