Calah

Calah was one of the ancient cities Nimrod is said to have built in Assyria, along with Nineveh and Resen (Genesis 10:11-12). It is identified with Nimrud, on the east bank of the Tigris south of Mosul, which Ashurnasirpal II rebuilt as his royal capital in the ninth century BC, complete with palaces, temples, and a garden watered by canal from the Great Zab. British and Iraqi excavations there since the 1840s, most extensively under Max Mallowan in the 1950s, uncovered colossal winged bulls, palace reliefs, and a rich hoard of carved ivories that now count among the finest surviving examples of Assyrian art.