Editing Nimrud (section)

====Nimrud====
The name Nimrud in connection with the site in Western writings was first used in the travelogue of [[Carsten Niebuhr]], who was in [[Mosul]] in March 1760. Niebuhr <ref name=Brill>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fWNpIGNFz0IC&pg=PA923 Brill's Encyclopedia of Islam 1913-36], p.923, "Nimrud": "At the present day the site is known only as Nimrud, which so far as I know first appears in Niebuhr (1778, p. 355, 368). When this, now the usual, name arose is unknown; I consider it to be of modern origin ... names like Nimrod, Tell Nimrod, etc. are not found in the geographical nomenclature of Mesopotamia and the Iraq in the Middle Ages, while they are several times met with at the present day."</ref>
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In 1830, traveller [[James Silk Buckingham]] wrote of "two heaps called Nimrod-Tuppé and Shah-Tuppé... The Nimrod-Tuppé has a tradition attached to it, of a palace having been built there by Nimrod".<ref name="Buckingham1830">{{cite book|last=Buckingham|first=James Silk|author-link=James Silk Buckingham|title=Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, Including a Journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the Ancient Ecbatani, Researches in Ispahan and the Ruins of Persepolis, and Journey from Thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the Sea-shore; Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz and Museat: Narrative of an Expedition Against the Pirates of the Persian Gulf, with Illustrations of the Voyage of Nearehus, and Passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2RjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA54|year=1830|publisher=H. Colburn|pages=54|quote=Our course now lay nearly east, over a plain, which brought us in half an hour to the two heaps called Nimrod-Tuppé and Shah-Tuppé, between which we passed, without seeing any thing remarkable in them, more than common mounds of earth; though they probably might have shown vestiges of former buildings had they been carefully examined, a task which I could not now step aside from the road to execute. The Nimrod-Tuppé has a tradition attached to it, of a palace having been built there by Nimrod; and the Shah-Tuppé is said by some to have been a pleasure-house; by others, to be the grave of an Eastern monarch, coming on a pilgrimage to Mecca from India, who, being pleased with the beauty of the situation, halted here to take up his abode, and ended his days on the spot.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bisi.ac.uk/sites/bisi.localhost/files/Curtis_et_al_New_Light_On_Nimrud.pdf |title=Julius Weber (1838–1906) and the Swiss Excavations at Nimrud in c.1860 together with Records of. Other Nineteenth-Century Antiquarian Researches at the Site |access-date=2019-02-25 |archive-date=2022-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110152233/http://www.bisi.ac.uk/sites/bisi.localhost/files/Curtis_et_al_New_Light_On_Nimrud.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

However, the name became the cause of significant debate amongst Assyriologists in the mid-nineteenth century, with much of the discussion focusing on the identification of four Biblical cities mentioned in [[Genesis 10]]: "From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, the city [[Rehoboth (Bible)|Rehoboth-Ir]], Calah and [[Resen (Bible)|Resen]]".<ref>{{Bibleverse|Genesis|10:11-10:12|KJV}}</ref>