Footnote

b Some 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Nineveh was Calah (Nimrud), which Ashurnasirpal rebuilt. The British Museum displays wall panels from Calah, about which we read: “Ashurnasirpal spared no detail of the ferocity and brutality with which he conducted his campaigns. Prisoners were hanged from poles or impaled on stakes at the walls of besieged cities . . . ; young men and maidens were flayed alive.”​—Archaeology of the Bible.