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How ISIS Reduced the Ancient World of Nimrud to Rubble

Dust To Dust

Video showing Isis destroying Nimrud, one of the world’s oldest antiquities, has surfaced. Fortunately, many of its objects still survive in museums.

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Statues topple over and shatter into pieces as men with massive power tools and heavy sledgehammers demolish some of the world’s oldest antiquities.

The dramatic video, which surfaced over the weekend, allegedly showed the destruction by Isis of the ancient city of Nimrud, in northern Iraq, which dated back to the...

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