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In 1988 Iraqi archaeologists uncovered four royal tombs in Nimrud (Kalhu). This was the most spectacular discovery in Mesopotamian archaeology since the discovery of the Royal Cemetery of Ur in the 1920s. The tombs, which were found in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC), were full of a treasure of gold jewelry and objects made out of precious stone. Inscriptions in the tombs indicate that female members of the royal family were buried here and that the tombs date between the ninth and the eighth centuries BC.
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