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| | Nimrud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Nimrud has been identified as the site of the biblical city of Calah or Kalakh [kä'läkh]. | | | The Arabs called the city Nimrud after Nimrod, a legendary hunting hero. | | | It has survived the confusions and looting after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 in a bank vault, where it had been put away for 12 years and was "rediscovered" on June 5, 2003.) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrud
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| | NIMRUD, THE WAR AND THE ANTIQUITIES MARKETS* |
| | For many years Nimrud had been the focus of considerable restoration and conservation and had been considered by visitors as one of the best-maintained sites, with Nineveh, in northern Iraq. | | | Luhnow, D. “Treasure of Nimrud is Found in Iraq. | | | Reade, J.R. “The Ziggurat and the Temples of Nimrud,” Iraq LXIV, |
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http://www.ifar.org/nimrud.htm
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| | Nimrud artifacts discovered intact inside Iraqi vault - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Nimrud, destroyed in 612 B.C., was the second capital of Assyria, an ancient kingdom that sat partly in what is today Iraq. | | | He said they were "largely unscathed," though it was unclear if the sewage water caused any damage at all. | | | What do you think about the future of Iraq? |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/specialreports/iraq/s_138726.html
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| | Ancient Assyrian Treasures Found Intact in Baghdad |
| | Ultimate Explorer host Lisa Ling traveled with Williams and a crew to Iraq to investigate what happened to one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time for a documentary to air in the United States on MSNBC this Sunday, July 6 at 8 p.m. | | | In addition to Jason's group, a number of others representing the Society have been in Iraq during the past month to assist in the assessment and protection of that region's vast archaeological treasures." | | | More images and full report of the National Geographic archaeological expedition to Iraq>> |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0602_030602_iraqgold.html
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| | Gold fever - www.theage.com.au |
| | A journalist views a bas-relief from the The Treasures of Nimrud at the Iraqi National Museum. | | | The existence of this hoard — as with the discovery of Tutankhamen's burial regalia in the 1920s — was an enormous surprise to the scholarly world. | | | The Nimrud finds were in three boxes with intact seals, exactly where they had been left. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/13/1073877824063.html
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| | Cronaca: Looters overwhelm guards at Nimrud |
| | A month after Iraq's museums were ransacked in the chaos of Saddam Hussein's downfall, thieves have started targeting the very source of this war-battered land's immensely long history--archeological sites that hold some of the earliest and most gloried remnants of human civilization. | | | The most vulnerable corner of the country includes the age-worn plains of northeastern Iraq, Jabr said, because a stabilizing U.S. military presence is thinnest there. | | | Nimrud, known in the Old Testament as Calah, is one of them. |
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http://www.cronaca.com/archives/000835.html
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| | the secret of nimrud MetaFilter |
| | Treasure of Nimrud Is Found In Iraq, and It's Spectacular | | | This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments | | | Wow, take me back to the good old days when the whole Iraq war was a quick fight for freedom and democracy and making the world safe from terrorism. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/47646
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| | The Seven Great Monarchies: Assyria (Part 3) by George Rawlinson, M.A., |
| | The Sidonians and their kindred were, it is remarked, the most renowned workers in metal of the ancient world, and their intermediate position between Egypt and Assyria may, it is suggested, have been the cause of the existence among them of a mixed art, half Assyrian, half Egyptian. | | | Layard in a chamber of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, in the near vicinity of slabs on which was engraved the name of Sargon. | | | Remains of ziggurats similar to this have been discovered at Khorsabad, at Nimrud, and at Kileh-Sherghat. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16162/16162-h/r2c.htm
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| | Nimrud (Calah), Iraq |
| | 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. | | | 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 | | | Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC); who firstly designated it as the Assyrian capital in 879 BC housing perhaps as many as 100,000 inhabitants, making it part of a great complicated building assigned to the god Nabu (the god of Arts), and so was his son |
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http://www.atlastours.net/iraq/nimrud.html
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| | Nimrud is the Sacred Site focal point of a group of Proactive Omniangels, the Iraq Proactive Omniangels. | | | Nimrud (Calah) was the city of the Assyrian capital until about 710 B.C.E. when the capital was moved to Nineveh (Ninua). | | | The palaces of Ashurnasirpal II and Tiglath-pileser III have also been found. |
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http://www.blessingscornucopia.com/Earth_Mysteries_Henges_Megaliths_Mounds_Stone_Circles_Sacred_Sites_Nimrud.htm
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| | The Seven Great Monarchies: Assyria (Part 4) by George Rawlinson, M.A., |
| | Ornaments of this kind were discovered by hundreds at Nimrud in a chamber which contained arms of many descriptions. | | | At the same period the monarch often wore, when he hunted or went out to battle, a garment which might have been called an apron, if it had not been worn behind instead of in front. | | | In this case their ornamentation may have been either by carving or painting, the bosses and rosettes being perhaps in some cases of metal, mother-of-pearl, or ivory. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16162/16162-h/r2d.htm
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| | Cronaca: Nimrud gold safe? |
| | Steve Mocsary, a U.S. Customs special agent overseeing the investigation to recover the missing art, said yesterday that museum inventories indicate such items [as the Nimrud treasures] have been in the vault more than a decade, despite claims they were stolen last month in the chaos that followed Baghdad's fall to U.S. forces. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.cronaca.com/archives/000998.html
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| | UBT: Seeing the light |
| | For the last decade, looting, war damage, lack of conservation and unstable economic conditions in Iraq, where the once-splendid sites are located, have placed them in jeopardy of eradication, a loss that in historical terms would be catastrophic. | | | According to the nominators, UNESCO has received permission from the U.N. Iraq Sanctions Committee to undertake work in Iraq, and the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities and Heritage has pledged the full cooperation, assistance and support it has provided in the past. | | | Ancient Nineveh and Nimrud, two of the world’s greatest ancient archaeological treasures, are in serious danger of being lost forever. |
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http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/UBT-archives/19_ubtw02/features/features_3b.html
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| | The Archaeology Channel - Finding the Treasures of Nimrud |
| | Treasure of Nimrud Is Found In Iraq, and It's Spectacular (Ancient Worlds) | | | Early in June 2003, film-maker Jason Williams and his National Geographic camera crew succeeded in locating and recovering the Treasures of Nimrud and other precious heritage objects in the Central Bank of Iraq, where in 1990 they had been placed for safekeeping. | | | The Treasures of Nimrud, jewelry and other precious artifacts recovered in the late 1980s from Assyrian royal tombs near Mosul in northern Iraq, have been compared to the contents of Tutankhamun's tomb. |
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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/williamsint.html
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| | UB VIRTUAL SITE MUSEUM / The Northwest Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud |
| | During the past year, we have been working on a virtual-reality, digital reconstruction of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, Iraq (883-859 B.C.), which will eventually be published on the Web and on Digital Video Disk. | | | It is also the best preserved and documented of all the Assyrian palaces. | | | Much of the decoration was now rendered in stone bas-relief where there was once only painted plaster and brick. |
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http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/htm/UBVirtualSiteMuseum/summaryNimrud.htm
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| | "Enough!" Nimrud said commandingly, his voice ringing more through Barien's mind than his ears. | | | If Tanniquil had been sent suddenly on some mission, he thought, Nimrud would surely be aware of it. | | | Suddenly Barien found himself blind as a shell opaque to his wizard sight enveloped him. |
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http://www.lsmsa.edu/DLambert/dreamweave.htm
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| | In the North of Iraq: Mosul's Museum, Hatra, and Nimrud |
| | Jabr blamed the general climate of lawlessness following Saddam Hussein's downfall for the wave of looting at museums and archaeological sites all over Iraq. | | | In the North of Iraq: Mosul's Museum, Hatra, and Nimrud | | | The famous yellow stela of Nimrud, which describes a celebration feast at the Assyrian capital in 879 B.C. and is said to contain the world's oldest surviving menu, is intact. |
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http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/iraq/mosul.html
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| | Art and Archaeology of Nimrud, Iraq’s Neo-Assyrian Capital, Now and in Antiquity |
| | The current archaeological situation in Iraq will be reviewed. | | | Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II in the 9th century BCE made Nimrud his capital. | | | The talk will put these treasures in context and explain the ancient setting and modern history of exploration at Nimrud since the mid-19th century. |
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http://www.nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=252
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Babylonia |
| | The remains of Ezida, at present Birs Nimrud, are traditionally pointed out as the Tower of Babel; whether rightly, is impossible to say; Esagila, in Babylon itself, has as good, if not a better, claim. | | | We have no record of the building of the city and tower being interrupted by any such catastrophe as a confusion of languages; but that such an interruption because of diversity of speech of the townspeople took place, is not impossible. | | | But the wish to have a rallying-point in the plain is only too natural. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02179b.htm
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| | ARTH 422 April 24 |
| | Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud, TP III Central Palace, Arab Campaign Prisoners Leaving | | | This collection is open to the entire web for searching and viewing the thumbnail images. | | | Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud, TP III Central Palace Attack on Triple Walled City |
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http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/spr03/422/April24/422April24.html
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| | Agatha Christie and Archaeology |
| | There he settled down to write his definitive report on his time at Nimrud. | | | Found at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq. | | | Other excavations followed, but the site was then abandoned and some thought the site exhausted. |
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http://www.fathom.com/course/21701725/session4.html
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| | Nimrud |
| | Nimrud, 23 miles South East of Mosul, in the North of Iraq, once was a capital of the Assyrian empire. |
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http://home.wanadoo.nl/g.bodden/irakfotos/nimrud.eng.html
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| | History of the Excavation - NWPalace, Nimrud |
| | The Iraqis were still excavating at Nimrud when the Gulf War broke out in 1990, attesting to the fact that much more of the Palace is there to be discovered. | | | Henry Layard discovered the Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II on the citadel of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) during his sojourn in Mesopotamia between 1847 and 1851. | | | Meuszynski, Sobolewski, and Paley worked to document each in-situ relief and to re-place in their original positions all the known bas-relief fragments and complete slabs that had been taken from Nimrud over the last century and a half (Meuszynski; Paley and Sobolewski II; Paley and Sobolewski III). |
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http://www.learningsites.com/NWPalace/NWP_Hist-exc4-test.htm
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| | Who was Jesus as a Human |
| | This corresponds to a planet on the Nimrud Dag relief | | | This large stone relief at Nimrud Dag is the relief of a maned LION | | | The planets at Nimrud Dag represent 3 wise "god kings" |
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http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi800.htm
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| | Homepage, Central Palace, Nimrud, Project |
| | 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. | | | anxiety among scholars that another war in Iraq will lead to further destruction of key monuments, like those at Nimrud). |
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http://www.learningsites.com/CPalace_Nimrud/CPalace_home.html
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| | Nemrut Dagh Nimrud Dag Nemrud in Anatolia |
| | We think that Antiochus had a son who was the later Jesus, as the son of Laodike, who, along with her children were allegedly all killed by the Parthian king after Mithradates, Antiochus' successor died. | | | This massive stone relief at Nimrud Dag near Eski Kale in Anatolia is still standing today, near the greatest tumulus mound in all of Europe, perhaps erected to commemorate the then ruling Seleucid King Antiochus Theus (Antiochus of Commagene). |
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http://www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi190.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Nimrud: An Assyrian Imperial City Revealed: Books |
| | Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in northern Iraq, was the capital of the Assyrian Empire during most of the 9th and 8th centuries BC, and remained a major center until the destruction of the Empire in 612 BC. | | | This authoritative account, written by two of the excavators of the site, traces its history and its gradual revelation through archaeological excavation, begun by Layard in the 19th century and continuing up to the present. | | | A copiously illustrated synthesis of the history of Nimrud as revealed by excavations from the 19th century to the present, including unpublished material and recent discoveries. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0903472252
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| | Assyrian Royal Tombs of Kalhu ( modern 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. | | | 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). |
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http://www.aina.org/aol/nimrud
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| | Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide |
| | ``This is allegedly the Nimrud treasure,'' Mocsary said in an interview outside the bank after he emerged from the vault wearing military fatigues and a camera around his neck. | | | Bank employees opened the vault after weeks of pumping water from the flooded basement of the bank, parts of which were gutted by fire in looting that followed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April. | | | The Treasure of Nimrud, a trove of Assyrian gold objects from northern Iraq dating to the 8th and 9th centuries B.C., was among thousands of artifacts feared stolen during looting after the April 9 fall of Baghdad. |
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aZz8IGtF9PAc&refer=home
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| | Nibiru Last Appearance Egyptian Artefacts Nimrud Dag |
| | This would then explain the construction of the rubble Pyramid, that is claimed to have religious significance by Antiochus, and the presentation of images about gods meeting men. | | | I believe that the frieze at Nimrud Dag indicates the expected return of Nibiru, and that the ‘place of crossing’ would be between Regulus and Cancer. | | | This would then corroborate my prediction for Nibiru’s next appearance, around 3750-60AD. |
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http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/ds16.html
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| | Lake County Astronomical Society NightTimes |
| | 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. | | | In 1850, archeologist John Layard discovered what looks to be a lens at a site he was excavating at the palace of Nimrud in what is now Iraq. | | | But the Nimrud crystal could just as well have been an item of jewelry or an amulet. |
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http://www.bpccs.com/lcas/Articles/nimrud.htm
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| | BIOGRAPHY OF RAB EMMA NIMRUD KHAMO |
| | A part of the RAF Levy Assyrian troops were transferred to the Iraqi Army but very soon they were disbanded without trace. | | | Rab Emma Nimrud Khamo, served with the RAF Levy Force for a total of 33 years as a faithful and dedicated military soldier with the British and during this period he was awarded by Her Britannic Majesty's Government and King Faisal I of Iraq the following Medals:- | | | Nazzy Shino in Mosul, Iraq in 1923..together they raised a decent Assyrian family during Wars, Massacres and the hard times. |
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http://www.nineveh.com/levies/r100khamobio.htm
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| | Nimrud on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Wall sculptures, adorned with Assyrian rituals and deities, line the walls of Assurnasirpal's palace in Nimrud, Iraq. | | | DALLAS OUT) (April 6) Wall sculptures, adorned with Assyrianrituals and deities, line the walls of Assurnasirpal's palacein 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. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/x/x-n1imrud.asp
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| | Assyrian News |
| | The Nimrud treasures which date back to 900 B.C. and consist of gold artifacts and precious gems have not been seen since the early 1990's. | | | The Nimrud treasures date back to 900 BC consisting in gold artifacts and precious gems have not been seen since the early 1990's. | | | One of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century, the Nimrud treasures, excavated in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud near present day Mosul, was found safe and undamaged in a Baghdad bank vault earlier this week. |
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http://www.aanf.org/news/2003/070303c.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Experts mourn the Lion of Nimrud, looted as troops stood by |
| | RAF doctor's Iraq court martial to go ahead | | | Iraq hostages 'were saved by rift among kidnappers' | | | It was too fragile to be moved into the museum's underground vaults in the weeks leading up to the war, and like 18 other major artefacts so far confirmed missing by Iraqi experts, may already have been smuggled over the country's unguarded borders. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,946259,00.html
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| | Nimrud Reliefs For Sale |
| | They were awaiting publication in a storeroom at the site following a 1974-1976 Polish excavation. | | | Samuel M. Paley, an Assyriologist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, says that 30 other reliefs from Nimrud may now be on the market. | | | Harper advised Symes to contact the Polish excavators. |
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http://www.archaeology.org/9711/newsbriefs/nimrud.html
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| | 2.30 The work of the Iraq Department of Antiquities at Nimrud (Manhal Jabr) | | | 10.00 Video films of the Nimrud tombs (Donny George) | | | 12.30 Chronology and politics: the ceramic evidence from Nimrud in the context of Late Assyrian pottery studies (Arnulf Hausleiter) |
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http://www.univie.ac.at/orientalistik/nimrud.html
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| | ARTH 422 April 28 |
| | This collection is open to the entire web for searching and viewing the thumbnail images. | | | Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud, Queens’ Tombs, Tomb II, Two Heavy Gold Bracelets with Ornate Inlay of Turquoise | | | Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud, Tomb II, main chamber, North Wall |
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http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/spr03/422/April28/422April28.html
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| | The Encyclopedia of Henna: Regale Unguentum |
| | Careful historians cannot place Pliny’s Royal Unguent to a period prior to his writing, since he doesn’t indicate a source. | | | However, an Assyrian bas-relief of a royal procession from Nimrud in 865 BCE at the British Museum still has traces of red colorant on the soles and toes of the king and some of his courtiers. | | | This can be interpreted to indicate that henna was appropriate for royal men’s feet on ceremonial occasions, and potentially places "Royal Unguent", if this can be interpreted as a henna mix, in a much earlier period. |
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http://hennapage.com/henna/encyclopedia/parthian
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| | Swedish Choreographer Per Jonsson Triumphs With Nimrud - Peter Bohlin |
| | The Gothenburg company was only formed in 1967, the first ballet troupe to be established outside the country's capital city. | | | Since his debut, Jonsson has been considered a choreographer of exceptional talent. | | | The overture plays before the curtain goes up to reveal a golden cloud suspended in midair. |
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http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1987/july/Sa12449.htm
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| | The Agonist: Iraq museum reopens briefly to show Treasure of Nimrud |
| | Reuters via MSNBC: The Iraqi National Museum reopened briefly on Thursday to display the glittering Treasure of Nimrud, which was feared stolen during the first chaotic days after the fall of Saddam Hussein in April. | | | The Agonist: Iraq museum reopens briefly to show Treasure of Nimrud | | | Pietro Cordone, the senior cultural adviser for the ruling Coalition Provisional Authority said the museum's galleries could reopen to the general public as early as November, but it was unclear whether the Nimrud gold would go back on display. |
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| | Humbul Record : Assyrian treasures from the city of Kalhu (Nimrud) |
| | Assyrian treasures from the city of Kalhu (Nimrud) | | | In 1989 archaeologists from the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage excavated three intact royal tombs in the North-West Palace on the citadel of the Assyrian city of Kalkhu or Nimrud (biblical Calah) in northern Iraq. | | | Humbul Record : Assyrian treasures from the city of Kalhu (Nimrud) |
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http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full3.php?id=6571
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| | British School of Archaeology in Iraq: Homepage |
| | In 1964 he then became Director of the excavations at Tell Al Rimah and was also Assistant Director of the School in Iraq in 1959. | | | Professor Eva Braun Holzinger has set up a project in Mainz, employing, among others, Dirk Wicke, who has recently completed his doctorate in Munster, studying pyxides, of which there are, of course, numerous ivory examples from Nimrud. | | | I was moved to see that the old surviving city was expanding westwards, and its suburbs had managed to reach the eastern bank of the Euphrates, and would one day be big enough to have both rivers running though it. |
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| | Iraq, Nimrud, Assyrian, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 9th Century BC / Winged Genie Pollinating Date Palm / 883-859 BC |
| | Creator Name: Iraq, Nimrud, Assyrian, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 9th Century BC | | | This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world. | | | Iraq, Nimrud, Assyrian, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 9th Century BC / Winged Genie Pollinating Date Palm / 883-859 BC Iraq, Nimrud, Assyrian, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 9th Century BC Winged Genie Pollinating Date Palm |
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| | The city of Nimrud was first designated as the Assyrian capital in 879BC and was known as Kalhu. | | | Once Assyria’s second capital, the ancient city of Nimrud lies about 37km southeast of Mosul. | | | Shown above is a relief from within the palace. |
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http://www.star.niu.edu/features/iraqs_forgotten_culture/area2_nimrud.html
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| | Ancient Near Eastern Art: New Light on an Assyrian Palace Explore & Learn The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | Following the destruction of Nimrud and the collapse of Assyrian power in 612 B.C., occupation ceased almost entirely. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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