Militants IGIL leveled ruins of the Assyrian city of Nimrud
ARTinvestment.RU   06 марта 2015

Militants IGIL plundered and razed to the ground by bulldozers ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud 30 km from Mosul

Militants IGIL plundered and razed to the ground by bulldozers ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, said the Iraqi government. About this barbarism has become known from a person living near the site of the excavations in the city of Mosul. Just a week ago militants IGIL destroyed with hammers, axes and drills ancient Assyrian statues in the Museum of the city of Mosul and posted a video about this in the Internet. Now their victim was the city of Nimrud, one of the oldest cities in the world. Nimrud was founded in the XIII century BC the Assyrian king shalmeneser I I and four hundred years later, during the reign of Assurnasirpal II, became the capital of Assyria@

"Terrorist group continues to defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity, reported the Ministry of tourism and antiquities of Iraq. - Another crime in a series of relentless attacks was the destruction of the ancient city of Nimrud, which drove heavy bulldozers, burying an archaeological monuments of the thirteenth century, to na@

Many important artifacts were removed from Nimrud in the previous century by archaeologists: the enormous size of the winged bulls now belong to the collection of the British Museum, and hundreds of precious stones and gold are in Baghdad. But the ruins of the city still remained the greatest monument of ancient times. Here in the expedition in the 1950s worked as an archaeologist Max Mallowan and his wife Agatha Cristi@

According to a resident of Mosul, the jihadists had first taken from the excavation site all the most valuable, and after you have leveled it to the ground. "Statues and walls, and the castle of the Islamic period were completely destroyed," confirmed Istochnik@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: theguardian.com, artinvestment.ru