How ISIL destroyed Iraq’s NimrudNimrud is one of many archaeological treasures in Iraq which has suffered under ISIL control. Much of Nimrud is nothing but a huge field of rubble dotted by chunks of stone with cuneiform writing and the odd murd brick wall [John Beck/Al Jazeera] Nimrud, Iraq – The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) blew up Nimrud on a spring day last year. A truck mounted with speakers dr
