Iraq / Mesopotamia: 'The Palaces at Nimrud Restored', A.H. Layard (the city's first excavator) after a sketch by the architect James Fergusson, 1853

Nimrud is the later Arab name for an ancient Assyrian city located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately 1250 BCE and 610 BCE.

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