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We have given some account of the results already achieved from the excavations carried out during the last two years at Sherghat, the site of the city of Ashur. That much remains to be done on the site of Calah, the other early capital of Assyria, is evident from even a cursory examination of the present condition of the mounds that mark the location of the city.
This is now preserved in the British Museum, and before describing it we may briefly refer to another phase of the excavations at Sherghat. An early independent King of Assyria, who reigned about B.C. 1350. Photograph by Messrs. Mansell & Co. The mounds of Sherghat rise a considerable height above the level of the plain, and are to a great extent of natural and not of artificial formation.
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