Various artifacts with inscriptions have survived the destruction of the traditional Assyrian metropolis of Nimrud. Reside Science confirmed pictures of a few of the inscriptions to students who have been capable of determine what they are saying. On this excessive res picture a statue, with carved stays of legs, might be seen protruding of a pile of destroyed artifacts.
The inscription beside the legs tells the story of how the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II (reign 883–859 B.C.) based a monkey colony at Nimrud. The king obtained feminine monkeys as tribute from lands close to the Mediterranean coast and bred them with male monkeys that he additionally obtained (or already had) to discovered the colony. The inscription says that "herds of them in nice numbers" lived at Nimrud.
[Read the full story on the surviving ancient inscriptions.]
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