(Penn Museum) At the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, a temple razed by fire around 612 BCE, has remarkably preserved shrines that were recovered by the Penn Museum and Iraqi ...
"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... Nimrud reached its peak 4,000 years later and was the second capital of the Assyrian empire. Propaganda videos released by IS in 2015 showed ...
Assyria was a major civilization of ancient ... program director of Penn's Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, said in a press release. "The condition and distribution of artifacts strongly ...