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SUMMARY:New work at Nimrud - Dr John MacGinnis (Affiliated Scholar\, McDon
 ald Institute\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Megan Hinks
DESCRIPTION:As the capital of the Assyrian empire - in its day\, the large
 st empire the world had ever seen - from the ninth to seventh centuries BC
  Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) was at the epicentre of world events. Ever since t
 he excavations carried out by Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s\, it has be
 en recognised as a site of exceptional importance\, and many different tea
 ms have worked there in the ensuing two centuries. Tragically\, in 2015 Ni
 mrud was devastated by the regime of ISIS. At the invitation of the Iraqi 
 State Board of Antiquities and Heritage\, in 2021 the Nimrud Archaeologica
 l Project was established by Dr. Michael Danti within the framework of the
  University of Pennsylvania's Iraq Heritage Stabilisation Program in order
  to work towards the rehabilitation of the site through a programme of res
 toration guided by scientific excavation. The British contribution forms p
 art of this effort. This lecture will review the work of the project to da
 te\, in particular the operations in the Temple of Ishtar\, the Temple of 
 Ninurta and the Palace of Adad-nerari III.
LOCATION:McDonald Seminar Room\, Department of Archaeology
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