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	Oriental Institute \| Excavations At Khorsabad
		There he confirmed the impression he had gained from reading French archaeologists' publications of their mid-19th century excavations of the mound - that there was still a great deal of archaeological work to be done in the capital city of King Sargon II (721-705 B.C.).
		On his arrival, the villagers uncovered for him a fragment of relief showing two magnificent horses' heads, thus confirming the presence of treasures lying just beneath the surface.
		Khorsabad takes its name from a modern Iraqi village that stands on the ruins of an ancient city called Dur-Sharrukin.
	oi.uchicago.edu /research/projects/kho (847 words)

	Khorsabad - LoveToKnow 1911
		KHORSABAD, a Turkish village in the vilayet of Mosul, 121 m.
		The objects excavated by Place, together with the objects found by Fresnel's expedition in Babylonia and a part of the results of Rawlinson's excavations at Nineveh, were unfortunately lost in the Tigris, on transport from Bagdad to Basra.
		Flandin had, however, made careful drawings and copies of all objects of importance from Khorsabad.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Khorsabad (596 words)

	Dur-Sharrukin modern “Khorsabad”:
		In 717 B. Sargon II, laid the foundation of “Sargon’s fortress” Dur-Sharrukin, a site twenty-four kilometers to the northeast of Nineveh, near the modern village of Khorsabad.
		The town was square in plan, each side measuring more than one and a half kilometers, and seven fortified gates pierced its wall.
		But unfortunately and sadly one year after Dur-Sharrukin was officially inaugurated Sargon ‘went against Tabal and was killed in the war’ (705 B. His successors preferred Nineveh to the Mesopotamian Brazilia, but Khorsabad remained inhabited by governors and their retinue: until the final collapse of Assyria.
	www.angelfire.com /art2/assyrian/Dur-Sharrukin.html (243 words)

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