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Dur-Sharrukin
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Capital city of the Assyrian King Sargon II (721-705 BC) in present-day Iraq, excavated by James Henry Breasted in the 1920s and Paul Botta in the 1870s. The interesting thing about Khorsabad (called during Sargon II's time Dur-Sharrukin) is that it was apparently never really used; when Sargon II died, the capital city wasn't finished, and his son Sennacherib moved the capital back to Nineveh.
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• James Henry Breasted
• Paul Emile Botta
• Assyria
Mesopotamia
Archaeological sites and studies of the ancient civilization of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers of the middle east.
Excavations at Khorsabad
History of Breasted's archaeological investigations by the Oriental Institute.
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