Iraqis reassemble ancient treasures ravaged by Isis at Nimrud

The head of a Lamassu statue, an Assyrian deity often depicted as a winged bull with a human head, lies at the archaeological site of Nimrud. (Image: Zaid al-Obeidi, AFP)

Agence France-Presse

Sun, 12 Jan 2025

By Waleed al-AkidiA 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.Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (Isis) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014.The precious pre-Islamic artefacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the col...

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