article_snippet: (CNN)ISIS has again destroyed cultural treasures, this time bulldozing the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, the nation's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said.
article_snippet: B.C.
  ISIS continues to defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity," the nation's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement.
article_snippet: the nation's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities violated the ancient city of Nimrud and bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud ancient ruins.
article_snippet: the nation's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities condemns these criminal acts," a statement said.
article_snippet: Letting these lost gangs go without punishment will encourage these lost gangs to destroy humanity's civilization, the Mesopotamian civilization, inflicting irreversible priceless damages and losses.
article_snippet: The razing of Nimrud comes a week after a video showed B.C.
  ISIS militants using sledgehammers to obliterate stone sculptures and other centuries-old artifacts in the Mosul Museum.
article_snippet: ISIS has destroyed other ancient and deeply meaningful sites in Iraq.
article_snippet: Officials have said ISIS has blown up shrines such as the tomb of Jonah.
article_snippet: Destruction of antiquities proves folly, hypocrisy of ISIS .