Examples of using Nimrud in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Moved capital to Kalhu(modern Nimrud).
Nimrud in northern Iraq was once the capital of the Assyrian empire.
Ashurnasirpal II also moved his capital to the city of Kalhu(Nimrud).
Enraged King Nimrud decided to punish Prophet Abraham by burning him alive.
This attendant godwas found at the Temple of god Nabu at Nimrud, Mesopotamia, Iraq.
Nimrud in northern Iraq was once the capital of the Assyrian empire.
On Thursday they attacked the remains of the Assyrian city of Nimrud, south of Mosul.
Archeologists first began excavating Nimrud-- built nearly 3,000 years ago-- in the 1840s.
Particularly at risk are the ancient cities of Hatra,a UNESCO world heritage site, and Nimrud.
The group had helped preserve the treasures at Nimrud following the 2003 Iraq war.
Other important cities and capitals in the Assyrian homeland were Nineveh, Arbela,Khorsabad, and Nimrud.
A red sealing-wax cake found in the Burnt Palace at Nimrud, from the early 6th century BC, contains 10% PbO.
Unfortunately, at the time, Iraq was considered too dangerous tosend a team out to record the remaining fragments in Nimrud.
Archeologists believe that the city was given the name Nimrud in modern times after the Biblical Nimrod, a legendary hunting hero.
The sculpted panel was excavated in the19th century from the ruins of the Northwest Palace in Nimrud, in present-day Iraq.
Nimrud and the Assyrian Empire declined rapidly around 612 B.C., after Nimrud's sister city, Nineveh, fell to the Babylonians.
In 2015 the Islamic State militants in Northern Iraq destroyedmuch of the remaining artwork in the ruins of the palace of Nimrud.
The Nimrud lens is a 3000 year old piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud.
Braziers have been recovered from many early archaeological sites like the Nimrud brazier, recently excavated by the Iraqi National Museum, which dates back to at least 824 BC.[1].
Concerns about looting during the Syrian war have increased following the advance of the Islamic State group through parts of Syria and Iraq, andrecent propaganda videos showing their destruction of ancient sites such as Nimrud.
In the Geographica of Strabo itis described the city of Borsippa(now Birs Nimrud in Iraq), where there was a large number of bats captured by the inhabitants, who"salad them to eat them".
Glass is mentioned in clay tablets from the reign of Assurbanipal(668- 631 BC), and a recipe for lead glaze appears in a Babylonian tablet of 1700 BC.[10]A red sealing-wax cake found in the Burnt Palace at Nimrud, from the early 6th century BC, contains 10% PbO.
Troops from the Ninth Armoured Division liberated Nimrud town completely and raised the Iraqi flag above its buildings after inflicting loss of life and equipment on the so-called Islamic State.”.
The Syrian authorities warned at that time that the unique historical complex could repeat the sadfate of the ancient Iraqi cities of Ashur and Nimrud, which had been fully ruined and eliminated by insurgents.
As an act of cultural vandalism, the attempt to destroy Nimrud is already being compared with the Taliban's demolition of the Bamiyan Buddha rock sculptures in Afghanistan in 2001, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut, neighbouring Lebanon.
While Sin-shar-ishkun was fighting both the rebels in Assyria and the Chaldeans and Babylonians in southern Mesopotamia, Cyaxares( hitherto a vassal of Assyria), in alliance with the Scythians and Cimmerians launched a surprise attack on civil-war-bleaguered Assyria in 615 BC, sacking Kalhu(the Biblical Calah/ Nimrud) and taking Arrapkha( modern Kirkuk).
A crystal lens, turned on the lathe,was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.[41].
They pass the ruins of Iraq's ancient cities,such as Ur, Nimrud and Bablyon, some of humanity's earliest settled cities, and through the modern ruins of Baghdad and Nasiriyah where police stations have been ransacked and prisons holding political prisoners have been destroyed.