Where is Nimrud located?
The site of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), near Mosul in what is today northern Iraq, has a long history—the earliest known settlement there dates to the sixth millennium B.C.—but it is most famous as the ninth- and eighth-century B.C. capital of the Assyrian empire. Is Nimrud Nineveh? It was a major Assyrian city between approximately 1350…