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 ...
His image of Sennacherib, the Assyrian king from 704 to 681 BC, engaged in the first hunt for relics of ... the development of the flood myth by writing it down as part of the court librarians’ canon ...