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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.

Thabet Mekhail is working tirelessly to restore and rebuild ancient Assyrian artefacts that were damaged and destroyed during the devastating ISIS occupation of Mosul in Iraq. Iraq’s second ...

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(Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP) Nimrud, Iraq (AFP) -- A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into ...