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Khorsabad (khôrsäbäd`), village, NE Iraq, near the Tigris River and 12 mi (20 km) NE of Mosul. It is built on the site of Dur Sharrukin, an Assyrian city (founded 8th cent. B.C. by Sargon), which covered 1 sq mi (2.6 sq km). Its mounds were excavated by P. E. Botta in 1842 and in 1851, and statues of Sargon and of huge, winged bulls that guarded the gates of the royal palace were taken to the Louvre. In 1932 there were discovered hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite language and a list of kings ruling from c.2200 B.C. to 730 B.C.
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No references found | When we think of the artistic accomplishments of the Ancient Near East, it's the great monumental structures that come to mind--the ziggurat at Ur, the barrel-vaulted arch at Ctesiphon, or sprawling temple complexes such as those at Persepolis and Khorsabad, of which only fragments remain. 5) Recovered from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad and now in the Louvre, this high relief is dated only to the eighth century B. Miraculously the 21 days of war (20 March 10 April 2003) did not destroy any of Iraq's major ancient sites (Agargouf, Arbil, Ashur, Babylon, Borsippa, Cresiphon, Eridu, Hatra, Khorsabad, Kifal, Kish, Lagash, Larsa, Nimrud, Nineveh, Nippur, Tell Harmal, Al'Ukhaidir, Ur and Uruk). |
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