IRAQI military forces engaged in the operation to drive Islamic State (Isis) from Mosul confirmed the liberation of the ancient city of Nimrud yesterday. Mosul operational commander Lieutenant-General ...

Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq in 1850, he assumed that it had been used as a ...

Geni/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When Austen Henry Layard unearthed an 8th-century-BC piece of rock crystal at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in Iraq in 1850, he assumed that it had been used as a ...

The Nimrud lens, also called Layard lens, is an 8th-century BC piece of rock crystal which was unearthed in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud in modern-day Iraq. Credit: Geni CC BY-SA 4.0 Zosimus ...