Dur-Sharrukin; present day Khorsabad; was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq; 15 km northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BCE. After the unexpected death of Sargon in battle; the capital was moved 20 km south to Nineveh.

On 8 March 2015 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly started the plunder and demolition of Dur-Sharrukin; according to a Kurdish official from Mosul. The Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Ministry launched the related investigation on the same day.