More than 2,700 years ago, two Assyrian kings, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and Assurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), recorded their successful military campaigns on the walls of their palaces at the ancient sites of Nineveh and nearby Nimrud. (...)
More than 2,700 years ago, two Assyrian kings, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and Assurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), recorded their successful military campaigns on the walls of their palaces at the ancient sites of Nineveh and nearby Nimrud. Depicted in the reliefs are marauding troops in foreign lands, rendered in a style marked by lively action and attention paid to topographic and ethnographic detail.
In the 1960s, a protective corrugated metal roof was erected to protect the stone reliefs in Sennacherib’s palace. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing during the war in the 2000s, widespread looting of archaeological sites in Iraq, including Nineveh and Nimrud, became a significant international concern.
