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Site WatchSite Name: Nimrud Alternative Name: Calah, Kalhu, Kalakh
Country: Iraq Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mosul  Nearest Village: Tell Nimrud
Latitude: 36.098495N  Longitude: 43.328553E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Nimrud
Nimrud submitted by DrewParsons : Gypsum alabaster relief from the Royal Court at Nimrud dated to between 853 - 859 BC. Now located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, gallery 401. Photographed during a visit there in September 2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Iraq. Remains of early Assyrian city. The city of Nimrud was the ancient Assyrian city called Kalhu, Calah or Kalakh, located on the river Tigris south of Nineveh and some 30 km southeast of modern Mosul.

The Arabs called the city Nimrud after Nimrod, the great hunter. The Assyrian king Shalmaneser I made Nimrud, which had already existed for about a thousand years by then, the capital of an earlier Assyrian kingdom in the 13th century BCE. The city gained fame around 880 BCE when king Ashurnasirpal II of the Assyria empire made it his capital. He built a large palace and temples on the site of the earlier city that had fallen into ruins. A grand opening is described in an inscribed stele discovered during archeological excavations.

Under Ashurnasirpal II, the city housed as many as 100,000 inhabitants. His son, Shalmaneser III, who reigned from 858 to 824 BCE, built the Great Ziggurat and an associated temple. The palace, now a museum, is one of only two preserved Assyrian palaces in the world. Calah remained the Assyrian capital until around 710 BCE when first Khorsabad and then Nineveh were designated as the new capitals. The city was completely destroyed in 612 BCE when Assyria was conquered by the Medes and the Babylonians. Sir Austen Henry Layard first investigated the site of Nimrud between 1845 to 1851. Bas-reliefs, ivories, statue of Ashurnasirpal as well as colossal winged man-headed lions guarding the palace entrance were found and many were taken to western museums, such as the British Museum and the Pergamom Museum.

Parts of the site have the temples of Ninurta and Enlil, Nabu. The palaces of Ashurnasirpal II, Shalmaneser III, and Tiglath-Pileser III have also been identified The 2 Meter tall Black Obelisk, shaped like a temple tower at the top, ending in three steps, of Shalmaneser III, discovered by Layard in 1846, commemorates the king's victorious 859-824 BCE campaigns. the Israelites King Jehu of Israel is shown paying tribute and bow in the dust before king Shalmaneser III. The "Treasure of Nimrud," a collection of 613 pieces of gold jewellery and precious stones, was rediscovered on 5 June 2003 in a bank vault in Baghdad.

Note: International condemnation as "Islamic State" bulldoze the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, see comment
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Nimrud submitted by h_fenton : A relief slab from a wall in the northwest palace of King Assurnasirpal II (883-859BC) at Nimrud/Calah. The relief depicts a winged genie kneeling next to a sacred tree. This slab is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2 October 2010 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nimrud submitted by davidmorgan : A protective spirit relief from the north-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859 BCE). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nimrud submitted by davidmorgan : An eagle-headed protective spirit relief from the north-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859 BCE). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : The Black Obelisk, from "Babylonian Expedition...." via archive.org Site in Iraq (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Bas relief from "Nineveh and its Remains" via archive.org Site in Iraq (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : The royal wave, bas-relief at Nimrud, from "Ninevah and Babylon" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by h_fenton : A relief slab from a wall in the north-west palace of King Assurnasirpal II (883-859BC) at Nimrud/Calah. The relief depicts a genie kneeling in the front of a tree of life. This slab is in Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Turkey. 25 April 2008

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Nimrud submitted by DrewParsons : Fragment of a Wall Relief: Head of a Winged Genie from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud. Dated between 993 and 859 BC. Held at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old plan, from "Babylonian Expedition...." via archive.org Site in Iraq (1 comment)

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Purloining artifacts, from "Babylonian Expedition...." via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : The Black Obelisk, from "Rise and Progress of Assyriology.." via archive.org Site in Iraq (1 comment)

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Colossal lion, from "Rise and Progress of Assyriology.." via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Image from "History of Egypt...." via archive,org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Ancient warfare, from "Nineveh and its Remains" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing, from "Nineveh and its Remains" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Plan of a palace, from "Nineveh and its Remains" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old plan of the mound at Nimrud, from "Ninevah and Babylon" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old plan of the mound at Nimrud, from "Ninevah and Babylon" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing of temple at Nimrud, from "Ninevah and Babylon" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Detail of stone work at Nimrud, from "Ninevah and Babylon" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Tunnel at Nimrud, from "Ninevah and Babylon" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old diagrams of the Mound of Nimrud, from "Mesopotamian Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "Mesopotamian Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Iraq

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Nimrud submitted by AlexHunger : Alabaser Reliefs of Gods/mythical beings from Calah, otherwise known as Nimrud.

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Widespread outrage after self proclaimed Islamic State bulldozes ancient Iraq city by bat400 on Friday, 06 March 2015
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The Islamic State group have begun bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage.

IS "assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles," the tourism and antiquities ministry said on an official Facebook page.
An Iraqi antiquities official confirmed the news, saying the destruction began after noon prayers on Thursday and that trucks that may have been used to haul away artefacts had also been spotted at the site.
"Until now, we do not know to what extent it was destroyed," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Nimrud, one of the jewels of the Assyrian era, was founded in the 13th century BC and lies on the Tigris River around 30 kilometres (18 miles) southeast of Mosul, Iraq's second city and the IS group's main hub in the country.

"I'm sorry to say everybody was expecting this. Their plan is to destroy Iraqi heritage, one site at a time," said Abdulamir Hamdani, an Iraqi archaeologist from Stony Brook University.

"I'm really devastated. But it was just a matter of time," he said.

Most of Nimrud's priceless artefacts have long been moved to museums, in Mosul, Baghdad, Paris, London and elsewhere but giant "lamassu" statues -- winged bulls with human heads -- and reliefs were still on site.

The destruction at Nimrud Thursday came a week after the jihadist group released a video showing militants armed with sledgehammers and jackhammers smashing priceless ancient artefacts at the Mosul museum.

That attack sparked widespread consternation and alarm, with some archaeologists and heritage experts comparing it with the 2001 demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

In the jihadists' extreme interpretation of Islam, statues, idols and shrines amount to recognising objects of worship other than God and must be destroyed.

The video released by IS last week showed militants knocking statues off their plinths and rampaging through the Mosul museum's collection.

It also shows jihadists using a jackhammer to deface an imposing granite Assyrian winged bull at the Nergal Gate in Mosul.

"These artefacts behind me are idols for people from ancient times who worshipped them instead of God," a bearded militant said in the video.

"The prophet removed and buried the idols in Mecca with his blessed hands," he said, referring to the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

Many of the artefacts destroyed in the Mosul museum were from Nimrud and Hatra.

UNESCO director general Irina Bokova demanded an emergency meeting of the Security Council and called for the International Criminal Court to look into the Mosul museum destruction.

The IS group spearheaded a sweeping offensive last June that overran Nineveh province, where Mosul and Nimrud are located, and swept through much of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland.

The Mosul region was home to a mosaic of minorities, including the Assyrian Christians, who consider themselves to be the region's indigenous people.

IS militants have systematically destroyed heritage sites in areas controlled by the group, including Sunni Muslim shrines that they also consider heretical, and they have repeatedly attacked members of religious minorities.

Iraqi security forces and allied fighters are battling to regain ground from the jihadists with backing from an international anti-IS coalition as well as neighbouring Iran.
But major operations to drive IS out of Nineveh are likely months away, leaving the province's irreplaceable historical sites at the mercy of militants who have no regard for Iraq's past.

The AFP story has been quoted extensively, including on Yahoo News.
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Re: Calah by DrewParsons on Monday, 17 May 2010
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Archeologists say cuneiform tablets unearthed by a University of Toronto team contain a largely intact Assyrian treaty from the early 7th century B.C. "The tablet is quite spectacular," said Professor Timothy Harrison, director of the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archeological Project. "It records a treaty -- or covenant -- between Esarhaddon, king of the Assyrian Empire, and a secondary ruler who acknowledged Assyrian power.

"The treaty was confirmed in 672 B.C. at elaborate ceremonies held in the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). In the text, the ruler vows to recognize the authority of Esarhaddon's successor, his son Ashurbanipal," Harrison said. "The treaties were designed to secure Ashurbanipal's accession to the throne and avoid the political crisis that transpired at the start of his father's reign. Esarhaddon came to power when his brothers assassinated their father, Sennacherib."

The tablet contains about 650 lines and is said to be in a very fragile state. "It will take months of further work before the document will be fully legible," Harrison said. "These tablets are like a very complex puzzle, involving hundreds of pieces, some missing. It is not just a matter of pulling the tablet out, sitting down and reading. We expect to learn much more as we restore and analyze the document."

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/04/15/Researchers-study-ancient-Assyrian-tablets/UPI-62201271360476/

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