Kalkhu

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Kalkhu is the ancient Assyrian city better known today as Nimrud, a major archaeological site in northern Iraq that once served as a capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

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Label Occurrences
Kalakh 1
Kalkhu canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Assyrian city
ancient city
archaeological site
alsoKnownAs Calah
Kalhu
Nimrud
archaeologicalTypeSiteFor Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs
artifactsHeldAt British Museum
Iraq Museum
associatedWithDeity Ninurta
capitalOf Neo-Assyrian Empire
containsArtifactType cuneiform inscriptions
ivories
reliefs
containsStructure Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
fortifications
temples
ziggurat
culture Assyrian
linked to: Assyria
destroyedBy Assyrian enemies in late 7th century BC
excavatedBy Austen Henry Layard
Hormuzd Rassam
Max Mallowan
excavationContinuedInCentury 20th century
excavationStartCentury 19th century
flourishedInCentury 8th century BC
9th century BC
foundedBy Shalmaneser I
foundedInCentury 13th century BC
languageOfInscriptions Akkadian
locatedInCountry Iraq
locatedInRegion northern Iraq
locatedNear Mosul
Tigris River
linked to: Tigris
majorDevelopmentPeriod reign of Ashurnasirpal II
linked to: Ashurnasirpal II
modernName Nimrud
partOf Neo-Assyrian Empire
period Iron Age
rebuiltBy Ashurnasirpal II
servedAs capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
sufferedDamageFrom Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
sufferedDamageInYear 2015
timeAsCapitalEnd c. 706 BC
timeAsCapitalStart c. 879 BC
UNESCOStatus on Tentative List for World Heritage
writingSystem cuneiform

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nimrud alsoKnownAs Kalkhu
Kalhu hasAlternativeTransliteration Kalakh
linked to: Kalkhu