Nimrud (/nɪmˈruːd/; Syriac: ܢܢܡܪܕ Arabic: النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30...

Look up Nimrud in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nimrud is an ancient city in modern Iraq. Nimrud may also refer to: Nimrud, Iran, a village in Bezenjan...

The Nimrud lens, also called Layard lens, is an 8th-century BC piece of rock crystal which was unearthed in 1850 by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian...

The Nimrud Letters are an archive of 244 Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian cuneiform letters found at Nimrud in 1952 during the excavations led by Max Mallowan...

The Nimrud ivories are a large group of small carved ivory plaques and figures dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC that were excavated from the...

Queens' Tombs at Nimrud are a set of four tombs discovered by Muzahim Hussein at the site of what was once the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. Once the capital...

brutality, using enslaved captives to build a new Assyrian capital at Kalhu (Nimrud) in Mesopotamia where he built many impressive monuments.[citation needed]...

Borsippa (Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BAKI or Birs Nimrud (having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babylon Governorate, Iraq built...

directed the resumption of its work at Nimrud (previously excavated by A. H. Layard), which he published in Nimrud and its Remains (2 volumes, 1966). Mallowan...

discovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. The discovery of these bowls began not just the known corpus of Phoenician...

inscriptions in both cuneiform and Phoenician characters, were discovered at Nimrud. The Nimrud ivories, an important group of small plaques which decorated furniture...

first assignment from director Max Mallowan was to build a "dig house" at Nimrud, which she did and maintained for many years. She was typically the only...

Mona Lisa of Nimrud refers to a carved ivory piece of art discovered in the city of Nimrud in a campaign of excavation from 1949 to 1963, led by Sir Max...

Nimrud Baito (born 1952 in Dohuk) was the Minister of Tourism in the Kurdistan Regional Government cabinet from 2006-2009. An ethnic Assyrian, Nimrud...

"An Introduction to the Nimrud Tombs". New Light on Nimrud: Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th–13th March 2002. Nimrud Conference. pp. 81–82. OCLC 276334503...

to the 1989 discovery of a stone sarcophagus among the Queens' tombs at Nimrud which contained objects inscribed with the names of all three women. The...

Esarhaddon, from Nimrud, Iraq, seventh century BC, the British Museum Lamassu from the Throne Room (Room B) of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Iraq, ninth...

Battle of Qarqar. He had built a palace at Kalhu (Biblical Calah, modern Nimrud), and left several editions of the royal annals recording his military campaigns...

Nimrud (Persian: نيمرود, also Romanized as Nīmrūd; also known as Nīmrūd-e Maḩmūdī) is a village in Bezenjan Rural District, in the Central District of...

Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located near the ruins of the city of Nimrud in the Al-Hamdaniya District in the Nineveh Plains. Numaniyah came under...

The Nimrud Slab, also known as the Calah Orthostat Slab, is the top half of a "summary inscription" of the reign of Adad-nirari III (811 to 783 BC) discovered...

from Nimrud & reliefs from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III Room 7 – Reliefs from the North-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud Room 89 – Nimrud & Nineveh...

and Issachar) Betshean Bochim Byblos – Phoenician state Cabul Calah/Kalhu/Nimrud – Assyrian city Calneh – Assyrian city Cana – Galilee Canaan – Region on...

feeding oxygen to the fire. Braziers have been used since ancient times; the Nimrud brazier dates to at least 824 BC. The word brazier is mentioned in the Bible...

Limestone wall relief depicting an Assyrian royal attendant, a eunuch. From the Central Palace at Nimrud, Iraq, 744–727 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul....

880 BC—Ashurnasirpal moves the Assyrian royal capital to Kalhu (modern Nimrud, Iraq). Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) gateway supports from the palace...

the more centrally located Kalhu (later known as Calah in the Bible and Nimrud to the Medieval Arabs) The empire grew even more under Ashurnasirpal II's...

Neo-Assyrian (911–609 BCE), Iraq, Nimrud, northwest palace; reign of Ashurnasirpal II Baixo-relevo assírio (Nimrud, 884–859 a.C., alabastro). Arte da...

sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions. It comes from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), in northern Iraq, and commemorates the deeds of King Shalmaneser...

David Oates, a family friend, to an archaeological dig he was directing in Nimrud, northern Iraq. Here she was responsible for cleaning and conserving the...