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Nimud is one of the WMF (World Monument Foundation) Top 100 World's Most Endangered Monuments.

It has been referred to as a site with both a "temple" and a "palace"

Modern Nimrud and Nineveh: Nimrud is sometimes written as "Nimud" and is located in Iraq.

The Nimrud and Nineveh palaces, on the banks of the Tigris river near Mossul, remain the only Assyrian palaces still standing, thanks to 12 years of looting, sanctions against pre-war Iraq and increasing post-war vandalism.

In the ancient world Nimud was once a great Assyrian palace and temple, but now only pavement slabs remain. This temple, known as Urta, is at the ancient ruins of an Assyrian city.

Pavement slabs in the temple of Urta at Nimud contained an inscription by the Assyrian king Assur-Nasir-Pal in which he described the massacre of 600 warriors and 3,000 captives he had taken in battle "at the command of the great gods"

Nineveh and Nimrud Palaces near Mosul, Iraq

2,700 years ago, two Assyrian kings—Sennacherib (704–681 b.c.) and Assurnasirpal II (883–859 b.c.)—recorded their successful military campaigns on the walls of their palaces at the ancient sites of Nineveh (modern Mosul) and nearby Nimrud.

Depicted in the reliefs are marauding troops in foreign lands, rendered in a style marked by lively action and attention paid to topographic and ethnographic detail. Although Western museums mined the palaces for sculptures in the mid-nineteenth-century, many had remained in situ, revealed only recently during renewed excavations, and left in place as on-site displays.

Twelve years of UN sanctions, which drastically limited the effectiveness of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities to control looting, resulted in sculptures from both sites appearing on the art market and major damage or destruction to some 50 percent of the sculptures at Nineveh.

Further looting and vandalism have followed as a result of the 2003 Iraq War. Reducing the market for sculptures through publication of site inventories and stabilizing, conserving, and protecting archaeological remains are critical steps in protecting these sites.