11 Facts About Nimrud

Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located in Iraq, 30 kilometres south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres south of the village of Selamiyah, in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia.

Name Nimrud was recorded as the local name by Carsten Niebuhr in the mid-18th century.

In 2013, the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council funded the "Nimrud Project", directed by Eleanor Robson, whose aims were to write the history of the city in ancient and modern times, to identify and record the dispersal history of artefacts from Nimrud, distributed amongst at least 76 museums worldwide.

Nimrud built a large palace and temples in the city, which had fallen into a degree of disrepair during the Bronze Age Collapse of the mid-11th to mid-10th centuries BC.

Nimrud created a zoo and botanical gardens in the city which featured exotic animals, trees and flowers he had brought back from his military campaigns.

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Nimrud built the monument known as the Great Ziggurat, and an associated temple.

Ainsworth, like Rich, identified the site with Larissa of Xenophon's Anabasis, concluding that Nimrud was the Biblical Resen on the basis of Bochart's identification of Larissa with Resen on etymological grounds.

Nimrud has been one of the main sources of Assyrian sculpture, including the famous palace reliefs.

Nimrud initially tried to hook up the cart to a team of buffalo and have them haul it.

The Nimrud Ivories are a large group of ivory carvings, probably mostly originally decorating furniture and other objects, that had been brought to Nimrud from several parts of the ancient Near East, and were in a palace storeroom and other locations.

Every major structure had been damaged, the Ziggurat of Nimrud had been flattened, only a few scattered broken walls remained of the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, the Lamassu that once guarded its gates had been smashed and scattered across the landscape.