The group also destroyed other pre-Islamic sites in Iraq and Syria.īabylon, once home to Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II, has a history punctuated by architectural interventions. In 2015, the "Islamic State" terrorist group announced that it had bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud, saying its pre-Islamic "idols" amounted to heresy. Meeting in Baku, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted in favor of listing the Iraqi historic site just years after another protected site was destroyed by extremist militants. ![]() Renovation work undertaken Saddam Hussein's regime further damaged parts of the ruins
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