article_snippet.sent: The destruction at Nimrud, which took place last month, follows other attacks on cultural heritage sites carried out by the Islamic State, which now holds a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in Syria self-declared caliphate.
article_snippet.sent: When the destruction was first reported several weeks ago a Mosul tribal leader confirmed that SIIS had 'looted the valuables in Nimrud and then proceeded to level the ancient site to the ground.
article_snippet.sent: There used to be statues and walls as well as a castle that Islamic State has destroyed completely.' 'In a new crime in their series of reckless offenses their assaulted the ancient city of Nimrud and bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud with heavy machinery, appropriating archaeological attractions dating back 13 centuries BC,' the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said in a statement last month.
article_snippet.sent: Complete destruction:
highlights_snippet.sent: The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called the destruction of Nimrud  