The Golden Treasures Of Nimrud
By: Philip Elmer-De Witt
Synopsis: An Ancient city now called nimrud located in what is present-day iraq was once the military capital of one of historys fiercest empires. In That place the archeologists found gold and treasures. But one day they discovered that all of that gold belong to a dead princess burried in the ground.
Vocabulary:
Stone Coffin - sarcophagus
Style of writing - cuneiform
multi colored - polychromatic
very old - antiquities
Hanging decorations - festooned
By: Philip Elmer-De Witt
Synopsis: An Ancient city now called nimrud located in what is present-day iraq was once the military capital of one of historys fiercest empires. In That place the archeologists found gold and treasures. But one day they discovered that all of that gold belong to a dead princess burried in the ground.
Vocabulary:
Stone Coffin - sarcophagus
Style of writing - cuneiform
multi colored - polychromatic
very old - antiquities
Hanging decorations - festooned
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