article_snippet: Nimrud was a city in the Assyrian kingdom, which flourished between 900 B.C. and
article_snippet: Nimrud and nearby Nineveh are the sites where two Assyrian kings, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), recorded successful military campaigns on the walls of Nimrud and nearby Nineveh palaces, according to the World Monuments Fund, a group dedicated to saving the world's most treasured places.
article_snippet: The palaces of Sennacherib at Nineveh and Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud are vestiges of the political, cultural and artistic height of the Assyrian Empire.
article_snippet: The remains of The palaces of Sennacherib at Nineveh and Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, the only Assyrian palaces left preserved and decorated with reliefs, are now protected against vandals and function as site museums where visitors can appreciate ancient wall reliefs in The remains of these palaces, the only Assyrian palaces left preserved and decorated with reliefs original setting," the fund said in a website posting before this week's ISIS assault on Nimrud.
article_snippet: King Ashurnasirpal II made Nimrud the royal seat and the military capital of Assyria, Encyclopedia Britannica's website says.
article_snippet: Buildings at Nimrud "have yielded thousands of carved ivories, mostly made in the 9th and 8th centuries B.C., now one of the richest collections of ivory in the world," the encyclopedia says.
highlights_snippet: Nimrud was city in Assyrian kingdom, which flourished between 900 B.C. and 612 B.C.
  ISIS has destroyed other ancient sites in Iraq, home of some of earliest civilizations .