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Site WatchSite Name: Nimrud Alternative Name: Calah, Kalhu, KalakhCountry: Iraq
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mosul Nearest Village: Tell Nimrud
Latitude: 36.098495N Longitude: 43.328553E
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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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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