Nimrud

Nimrud is the name that Carsten Niebuhr attributed for the ancient Assyrian city of Kalhu (the Biblical Calah), located 30 kilometers (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometers (3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah in the Nineveh plains in Upper Mesopotamia in modern day Iraq. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately 1350 BC and 610 BC. It was recently destroyed by the terrorists ISIS.