British Museum - Assyrian Gates of Balwat

More Wikipedia history on the Balwat gates.

The city of Imgur-Enlil was founded by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (884-859 BC). It lay 10 km (7 miles) up the Derrah river from the Tigris, where the city of Kalhu (see Nimrud) was situated. Imgur-Enlil lay between the city of Nineveh and the province of Arrapha in the southeast along the royal Assyrian road. Ashurnasirpal II had already transferred the capital from Assur to Kalhu, and the foundation of Imgur-Enlil may have been a further step to knit up the Neo-Assyrian empire. Construction at the site continued under Ashurnasirpal II's son Shalmaneser III. The city existed for about two centuries but was, like all Assyrian cities, sacked and destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians at the fall of the Assyrian empire 614-612 BC.

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