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 Nimrud site was first excavated in the 19th century and ... Archaeologists have been carefully reassembling bas-reliefs, sculptures and decorated slabs from an ancient Assyrian palace. (Zaid ...

"Nimrud is the heritage of all of humanity ... About 70 percent of the collection work has been completed at the Assyrian palace site, with about a year's worth of fieldwork left before ...

Nimrud (Iraq) (AFP) – A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands ...