He paused. “They’re here, under our feet.” Khalid Ali Khatab, a cuneiform specialist, at Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta. The city, named for the Assyrian king who built it, was founded in the 13th ...

The plan of the citadel. (View of Asurnasirpal II's palace with a view of the ziggurat associated with the Ninurta Temple). The citadel (which includes Asurnasipal II's Palace and the main temples to ...