Archaeologists have dug at the Assyrian capital of Nimrud since 1845 almost entirely on its palace mound, and a new survey of the whole 340-hectare walled town around that mound has now mapped which periods it was occupied in, while magnetometry in s

A comprehensive survey has now mapped the occupational periods across the entire 340-hectare walled city surrounding the main palace mound. This new research utilizes magnetometry to reveal previously unknown structures within the ancient Assyrian capital.

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