Скачать или смотреть 2015-04-12: UNESCO Film of Assyrian City of Nimrud

On 12 April 2015, fundamentalist militants delivered video evidence that they had destroyed the city and artifacts of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. Their attack had begun with bulldozers as early as the 3rd of March 2015.

This is footage of the city and its important artifacts prior to the war crime of its destruction.

The video is respectfully silent in tribute to the loss.

Nimrud was an ancient Assyrian city located 30 km south of Mosul, Iraq in the Nineveh plains of Upper Mesopotamia. It was a major city of Assyria, built up by King Shalmaneser I (1274–1245 BCE) even as Assur remained the capital of Assyria, as it was since 3500 BCE.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire's King Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) made Nimrud his capital in place of Assur.

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