About this website: re-use, privacy, accessibility
We encourage you to re-use and adapt the material on this website that was created by the Nimrud Project. These pages explain the straightforward conditions under which you can do this, and point to further resources on how to do so. We also explain here our policies and practices on privacy and accessibility.
How to re-use materials from this website
The contents of this website, except where noted below, are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0.
This means that you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our work without permission, under the following conditions:
You must attribute the work to the Nimrud project and (if relevant) the individual author, and also acknowledge the fact that we are funded by the the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council [http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/]. We recommend the following wording: "Based on materials prepared by [name of author] for the AHRC-funded Nimrud project" or "Based on materials prepared by the AHRC-funded Nimrud project".
If you alter, transform, or build upon any material in this website, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
Any of these conditions may be waived in the right circumstances, if you explicitly ask us for permission. You can email us at .
- Read the hints and suggestions for reusing material from Oracc.
Images credited 'BSAI/BISI' are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0 courtesy of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI). Images taken from third-party websites are all credited and linked to those websites, where information about copyright may be found. If you have any doubts or questions about the licensing conditions of any material on our website please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Homepage image credit
"The palaces of Nimrud restored", as imagined by the city's first excavator, A.H. Layard (A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, London 1853, pl. 1 detail, after a sketch by James Fergusson).
Privacy and accessibility
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Software development
The website is based on a design by George MacKerron for the Whipple Museum [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/], and was created using ESP, Steve Tinney's Oracc port of MacKerron's electrostatic website-building software.
Content last modified: 18 Dec 2019