The Rise and Fall of Nimrud

Before its untimely end this once great city was the centre of a vast and powerful civilisation.

'The Palaces at Nimrud Restored', 1853, imagined by the city's first excavator, Austen Henry Layard and architectural historian James Fergusson

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