New Light on Nimrud - Nimrud Conference

This book publishes 34 papers by international and Iraqi
experts given at a conference on Nimrud at The British Museum in
2002. Excavations at the important Assyrian capital city of
Nimrud have continued intermittently since 1845, culminating with
the discovery in 1989-90 of the tombs of the Assyrian queens with
astonishing quantities of gold jewellery. All aspects of the
excavations and the various finds and inscribed material from
Nimrud are considered in this volume, with particular attention
being paid to the tombs of the queens and their contents. The
evidence of inscriptions and the results of paleopathological
investigation are brought together to identify the bodies in the
tombs. There is much previously unpublished information about the
tombs, and the jewellery is fully illustrated in eight colour
plates. Finally, the significance of Nimrud as one of the
greatest sites in the Ancient Near East is fully assessed.