One of the great cities of the ancient world, Nimrud was located on the Tigris River, south of present-day Mosul. In the Bible, Nimrud is called Calah. The city?s discovery and excavationis one of the great archeological stories of the past two centuries.

King Shalmaneser I built the city in the 13th century B.C., but its heyday didn?t arrive until four centuries later when, sometime around 880 B.C., Nimrud became the capital of Assyria.