Nimrud (/nɪmˈruːd/; Syriac: ܢܢܡܪܕ Arabic: النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30... 57 KB (6,898 words) - 14:19, 15 March 2024 |
Nimrud is an ancient city in modern Iraq. Nimrud may also refer to: Nimrud, Iran, a village in Bezenjan Rural District, in the Central District of Baft... 1 KB (179 words) - 02:33, 30 July 2023 |
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... 8 KB (879 words) - 08:16, 13 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (370 words) - 17:15, 29 January 2023 |
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... 25 KB (3,033 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2023 |
Ashurnasirpal II (section Nimrud reliefs) brutality, using enslaved captives to build a new Assyrian capital at Kalhu (Nimrud) in Mesopotamia where he built many impressive monuments.[citation needed]... 24 KB (2,683 words) - 13:31, 23 April 2024 |
Borsippa (redirect from Birs Nimrud) (Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BAKI; Akkadian: Barsip and Til-Barsip) or Birs Nimrud (having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babil Governorate... 15 KB (1,748 words) - 19:59, 3 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (146 words) - 17:05, 23 April 2021 |
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... 5 KB (466 words) - 06:30, 3 July 2023 |
Max Mallowan (category Nimrud) 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... 15 KB (1,480 words) - 11:00, 8 April 2024 |
Nimrud Baito (born 1952 in Dohuk) was the Minister of Tourism in the Kurdistan Regional Government cabinet from 2006-2009. An ethnic Assyrian, Nimrud... 1 KB (92 words) - 22:20, 17 March 2024 |
Phoenician metal bowls (section Nimrud bowls) 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... 25 KB (2,936 words) - 14:05, 22 December 2023 |
Stephanie Dalley (section The Nimrud Princesses) 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... 19 KB (2,047 words) - 20:20, 14 March 2024 |
Issachar) Bochim Byblos – Phoenician state Beersheba Betshean Cabul Calah/Kalhu/Nimrud – Assyrian city Calneh – Assyrian city Cana – Galilee Canaan – Region on... 9 KB (846 words) - 00:31, 16 April 2024 |
glory on himself, and sought to restore the site, and others in Ninevah, Nimrud, Ashur and Babylon, as a symbol of Arab achievement, spending more than... 25 KB (2,138 words) - 21:15, 7 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (164 words) - 16:25, 14 November 2023 |
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... 29 KB (3,810 words) - 06:55, 25 April 2024 |
but they do little to indicate how developed the state actually was. The Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name... 63 KB (7,275 words) - 22:19, 30 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (79 words) - 10:39, 27 March 2017 |