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Nimrud: Ishtar Temple, 2023, part 1

I worked primarily in the Ishtar Temple at Nimrud this past excavation season (Spring 2023) and filmed a walkthrough at the end of each week. I combined weeks 2 and 3 into this intro tour and saved the final week for part 2. There were two temples dedicated to Ishtar at Nimrud. One was to Ishtar Kidmuri, the other to Ishtar Sharrat Niphi. The Kidmuri temple has gone almost completely unexcavated but is not easily accessed at the moment. The Sharrat Niphi temple, however, had been partially excavated in the 1850s and in 2001/2002. ISIS also dug into it in 2016, leaving a large pit. We needed to assess that damage and then find out what we could learn by expanding the pit in a scientific way. In fact, this area was a key connection point between the Ishtar and Ninurta temples. It looks like ISIS attacked this very spot because they had heard about the find of a potential gateway here in 2001/2002 by Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Hussein. He revealed part of the gateway but didn't complete the excavation of it. ISIS probably thought there would be valuable material in the gate since it was protected by stone bulls. They dug in with machinery and badly damaged the stone paving. Who knows if they found any portable antiquities, but they did miss the second gate. We were able to document their damage and learn much about the original Assyrian building. 00:00 intro 00:21 Isthar court east 02:07 Ishtar cella 03:01 reconstructed walls 04:24 importance of history 05:14 gate chamber ISIS pit 06:12 monumental gate 06:38 digging the gate 07:48 wrap-up and outro