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	Where We Work ::: Iraq Heritage Program :: Nimrud
		Nimrud's Citadel is surrounded by a mud-brick wall with stone facing (Meyers: 143).
		Their collective grave goods are known as the Nimrud Treasure and include 613 pieces of royal jewelry and paraphernalia, including a royal crown of the era.
		The Nimrud Ivories were found in the private houses of high officials, in the royal palaces, and in the arsenal at Fort Shalmaneser; a testament to its special importance to the ancient Assyrians.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /where/nimrud.html (4823 words)

	Nimrud (Calah), Iraq
		Nimrud, lying on the east bank of the Tigris, 37 km to the south east of Mosul, is the 2nd capital of Assyria Empire founded in 883 BC, and had been a well-settled place for a thousand years before it was built as a center of the kingdom of
		The Arabs called it Nimrud after Nimrod, the biblical mighty hunter, father of Ashur (Assur), the Assyrian hero whose name explains why Assyrians are called Assyrians.
		In 612 BC, it was destroyed by the Medes of Northern Persia, at the same time as the fall of Nineveh.
	www.atlastours.net /iraq/nimrud.html (416 words)

	Nimrud - Enpsychlopedia
		Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris.
		It remained a major centre and a royal residence until the city was completely destroyed in 612 BC when Assyria succumbed under the invasion of the Medes and the Babylonians.
		The ancient sites at Nimrud were first investigated from 1845 to 1851 by Austen Henry Layard, who at first mis-identified the site as the city of Nineveh.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Nimrud (628 words)

	Project i4i: Discover Babylon :: The Entertainment Technology Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) is situated at the confluence of the Upper Zab and Tigris Rivers in the north of modern Iraq.
		In the Northwest is the royal palace, on the south-eastern side of the city lay the royal arsenal, known today as Fort Shalmaneser.
		The citadel of Nimrud was contained within the massive city wall, which had a circuit of five miles and enclosed approximately nine hundred acres.
	www.etc.cmu.edu /projects/i4i/nimrud.html (279 words)

	Agatha Christie and Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All that remains today of the great Assyrian city of Nimrud is a string of mountains stretching along the east bank of the River Tigris in northern Iraq.
		Fort Shalmaneser was the crown on a decade of achievement at Nimrud.
		Nimrud and Its Remains took Max seven years to write and was published in two volumes in 1966.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701725/session4.html (2360 words)

	NIMRUD, THE WAR AND THE ANTIQUITIES MARKETS*
		This bas-relief is the upper 60% of a slab from the West Wing of the palace, preserving a figure of a human-headed genius before a sacred tree with two ranks of palmettes.
		In the interest of maintaining pressure on the illicit trade in these antiquities, and that they not be lost in the confusion of the present crisis, I am bringing to the attention of this readership three additional fragments that have appeared on the market since the publication of our earlier articles.
		The rest of the most recent damage is in the form of bullet holes from a gun battle between the Nimrud guard and the looters - on a bas-relief from Room F and in an inscribed slab from the southeast corner of the central courtyard.
	www.ifar.org /nimrud.htm (2380 words)

	02 - AIA04 - Citadel at Nimrud text
		Nimrud, originally constructed by the ninth-century B.C. Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II.
		But, Nimrud is also a site from which, for over the last 150 or more years, cultural heritage has been dispersed to dozens of museums and private collections across the world, including those in Iraq.
		massing model of the northwestern corner of the Nimrud citadel illustrates the problems of reconciling the data, as the widths of the city wall and the heights of the palace floor paving, temple tower, temple floor paving and palace and temple walls become relevant.
	www.learningsites.com /Presentations/AIA2004/AIA04_Nimrud02_text.html (1832 words)

	LIBRARY
		Such a party with guests from all parts of the empire should have been easy to attend because Nimrud is built on one of the five major fords of the Tigris river.
		Nimrud, the city built by Assur-nasir-pal, stands athwart the major west to east route that leads from the confluence of the river Khabur with the Euphrates through Karana (now called Tell Rimah) to Nimrud.
		At Nimrud this trade and military road crossed the Tigris and sped north to Arbila, thence towards the lands of Urartu and further still to the north and east.
	intranet.dalton.org /ms/6th/archaeotype_library/ninth.html (1353 words)

	Nimrud
		Nimrud was located on the Tigris south of Nineveh (Ninua) about thirty kilometers southeast of Mosul, Iraq.
		Nimrud (Calah) was the city of the Assyrian capital until about 710 B.C.E. when the capital was moved to Nineveh (Ninua).
		The city of Nimrud emerged during the thirteenth century B.C.E. when Shalmeneser I overlaid the pre-existing structures of a prior ancient civilization that once inhabited the area and environs.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Earth_Mysteries_Henges_Megaliths_Mounds_Stone_Circles_Sacred_Sites_Nimrud.htm (402 words)

	NIMRUD TREASURES FOUND IN BAGHDAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Nimrud treasures which date back to 900 BC have been stored in a bank vault since before the first Gulf War.
		The Treasure of Nimrud is a collection of artefacts made of gold and precious gems.
		Nimrud or the Assyrian city of Kalkhu (biblical name Calah) was destroyed in 612 BC.
	www.bl.uk /services/npo/blueshield/iraqnewsupdatenimrud.html (375 words)

	Nimrud (Kalhu) - CDLI Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The modern name Nimrud is taken from the biblical account of Nimrod the hunter who, according to Genesis 10:8-12, established the dynasty from which the Assyrians derived.
		After the close of the BSAI excavations, foreign expeditions were absent from Nimrud for some time, although the Iraqi Department of Antiquities conducted excavations and restoration work intermittently beginning in 1956.
		Just as the entire city of Nimrud was enclosed by a 7.5 kilometer mudbrick wall with a limestone foundation, the acropolis in the southwest corner of the city was also surrounded by a wall.
	www.cdli.ucla.edu /wiki/index.php/Nimrud_(Kalhu) (2484 words)

	Nimrud artifacts discovered intact inside Iraqi vault - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The Nimrud treasures date back to about 900 B.C. They were discovered by Iraqi archaeologists in the late 1980s in four royal tombs at the site of the ancient city of Nimrud near Mosul in northern Iraq.
		Nimrud, destroyed in 612 B.C., was the second capital of Assyria, an ancient kingdom that sat partly in what is today Iraq.
		The discovery of the treasures in the royal tombs surprised archaeologists at the time, because members of the royal family were thought to be buried only in the holy city of Assur.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_138726.html (714 words)

	History of the Excavation - NWPalace, Nimrud
		No work by trained archaeologists was done again at Nimrud and the Northwest Palace until 1949, when, a century after Layard, Max Mallowan, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq and the British Museum, re-opened the site and paid attention to this monument of Ashur-nasir-pal II's reign.
		It was during the Iraqi excavations of the 1970's that the Polish Center of Mediterranean Archaeology, a branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, arrived at Nimrud with a contract to excavate the area of the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III which lies to the south of Ashur-nasir-pal's palace.
		One of the by-products of the Polish time there (1974-76) was the attention paid to the re-excavated Northwest Palace and the collaboration with the continuing presence of the Iraqi mission (Sobolewski).
	www.learningsites.com /NWPalace/NWP_Hist-exc4-test.htm (1531 words)

	Cronaca: Nimrud treasures recovered
		Another trove of priceless jewelry, the Treasure of Nimrud, was found in a flooded Central Bank vault on Thursday.
		The Nimrud artefacts, hundreds of gold and gem-studded pieces from the ancient kingdom of Assyria, were retrieved by U.S. investigators after the vaults below the gutted shell of the looted bank building were drained.
		U.S. investigators learned [the Nimrud treasures] had been placed in a central bank vault in the early 1990s, possibly to protect them during the 1991 Gulf War.
	www.cronaca.com /archives/001021.html (856 words)

	Ancient Nimrud (Calah) in [Sumer] Iraq
		Unlike many of the cities of Mesopotamia, Nimrud was not a long-lived site occupied from the pre-historic period but was a new foundation by Shalmaneser I of Assyria in the mid 13th century BC.
		Its heyday was in the time of Assurnasirpal II (884-859 BC) who made it the capital of Assyria; it remained the capital till circa 710 BC when the capital was transferred first to Khorsabad and subsequently to Nineveh.
		Perhaps the most famous finds from Nimrud are the delicately carved ivory plaques found in large numbers in the palaces of both the citadel and the arsenal.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Nimrud_Calah.html (276 words)

	Ancient Near Eastern Art: New Light on an Assyrian Palace \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the southeast is another group of mounds covering the ancient military headquarters, a royal palace constructed by Shalmaneser III, the son of Ashurnasirpal II.
		Following the destruction of Nimrud and the collapse of Assyrian power in 612 B.C., occupation ceased almost entirely.
		In Hellenistic times, from the mid-third to the mid-second century B.C., there was a small village on the southeast corner of the citadel mound.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/anesite/html/el_ane_xcavatio.htm (168 words)

	Assyrian Royal Tombs of Kalhu ( modern Nimrud )
		The Royal Tombs of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage.
		The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of nimrud).
		The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved the capital to Dur-Sharukin (modern Khorshabad) in 717 B.C. The city is located 4 miles south-west of the Christian monastery of Mar Behnam.
	www.aina.org /aol/nimrud (339 words)

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		The date was set in Copenhagen on 17 March by the Iraqi ministry of culture and United Exhibits Group (UEG), the Danish commercial venture organising the show.
		The Art Newspaper can reveal that the first venue for the Nimrud treasures is the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution.
		The latest news of the international tour comes after a series of false starts, but this is the first time that a specific venue and date have been given.
	www.iraqdirectory.com /DisplayNews.aspx?id=1107 (1129 words)

	Lake County Astronomical Society NightTimes
		To our knowledge, Galileo was the first to turn a telescope toward the sky, although this device had already been in wide use for military and commercial purposes.
		If the Nimrud lens had been used as part of a crude telescope, then it’s a case of a device having been invented and then forgotten.
		But this artifact from Nimrud is not totally unique in the ancient world.
	www.bpccs.com /lcas/Articles/nimrud.htm (501 words)

	Cronaca: Nimrud gold safe?
		Gold jewelry and other precious items recovered from royal tombs excavated at the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud are believed to have been found where they were stashed for safety—in a vault below the Central Bank in Baghdad—before the onset of the Gulf War in 1990.
		The 2,800-year-old treasures—which were characterized by one British archaeologist authority as the most significant discovery since Tutankhamun's treasures in 1923—are thought to be in three cases that had been sealed and secured in the underground vault.
		Emergency draining of the vault levels to gain access to Iraq's currency reserves, needed to pay salaries throughout the country, led to confirmation that the cases containing the Nimrud treasures were still intact.
	www.cronaca.com /archives/000998.html (583 words)

	FACTUM ARTE-Nimrud Northwest palace
		Factum Arte is currently involved in the production of a facsímile of the eastern end of throne room of Ashurnasirpal II from his palace in Nimrud, Iraq.
		A trip to record the fragments left on site in Nimrud and other known fragments in Mosul and Baghdad is currently being scheduled.
		The discoveries made in these queen's graves were sensational in several aspects, especially the enormous number of gold objects of exquisite quality.
	www.factum-arte.com /eng/conservacion/nimrud/default.asp (553 words)

	Nimrud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Nimrud in connection with the site is apparently first used in the writings of Carsten Niebuhr, who was in Mosul in March 1766.
		The name is probably associated with Nimrod the hunter (cf.
		The "Treasure of Nimrud" unearthed in these excavations is a collection of 613 pieces of gold jewellery and precious stones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nimrud (685 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Baghdad battle won to save treasures of Nimrud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		WHEN the Iraq Museum put the treasures of Nimrud on display earlier this month, it was heralded by many as a sign - one of the few - that the coalition authority could restore order in Iraq.
		Rumour was that it had been melted down in the face of sanctions or that Saddam Hussein had given it to a mistress.
		They include a golden crown and dozens of other artefacts, several skeletons, and an inscription of a curse on anyone who disturbed the burial site, calling on the gods to impose "restlessness" on his spirit and corpse for all eternity.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=778932003 (865 words)

	Nimrud - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Nimrud" at HighBeam.
		Wall sculptures, adorned with Assyrian rituals and deities, line the walls of Assurnasirpal's palace in Nimrud, Iraq.
		Gold of Nimrud: forgotten for nearly three millennia and then hidden for more than a decade, one of the greatest treasures of the ancient world has finally emerged.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-nimrud.html (175 words)

	Homepage, Central Palace, Nimrud, Project
		The Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III at Nimrud and
		Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) near the city of Mosul in northeastern Iraq in 1974, because the Palace was the least known and least understood of the buildings on
		Some of the bas-reliefs have been broken up into pieces to obscure their origin and in order to obtain more money from several rather than from the one original fragment.
	www.learningsites.com /CPalace_Nimrud/CPalace_home.html (617 words)

	Archaeological Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Once Assyria’s second capital, the ancient city of Nimrud lies about 37km southeast of Mosul, on the eastern bank of the River Tigris, south of Nineveh.
		A further great discovery made by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud, was the Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II on the citadel of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) during his sojourn in Mesopotamia between 1847 and 1851.
		The public rooms are the ones that seem to have been frequented by Ashur-nasir-pal II’s public officials (civil, military and religious) and visited by representatives of the peoples he conquered.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/middle_east/nimrud.html (539 words)

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