Islamic State (IS) insurgents have posted a video on the internet showing a 3,000-year-old temple being blown up at the Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, in their latest destruction of some of the world's most revered archaeological and cultural treasures, the Yahoo News website reports today (June 10, 2016).
The United Nations confirmed in a statement last night that satellite imagery showed "extensive damage to the main entrance" of the temple of Nabu, the Babylonian god of wisdom.
Nimrud was a 13th century BC Assyrian city -- located about 20 miles south of the modern city of Mosul -- which the hardline Islamic State militants seized control of in June 2014.
The IS video also shows scenes of bulldozers razing the ancient Gate of Nergal, part of the historic Nineveh city wall in Mosul. The fanatical Islamic group considers all pre-Islamic culture idolatrous, along with any religion outside its own radical interpretation of Sunni Islam.
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