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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kalakh 1
Kalkhu canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Nimrud → alsoKnownAs → Kalkhu ⓘ
Kalhu → hasAlternativeTransliteration → Kalakh ⓘ
linked to: Kalkhu