The Architecture of Power: Great Palaces of the Ancient World

The Assyrian Palace at Nimrud: Empire in Stone (1x6)

Air date: Sep 12, 2018

The Assyrian palace at Nimrud, with its imposing 20-foot gates, was designed by Ashurnasirpal II. An epic braggart, he loved to write of his conquests of nature and his knowledge of tree species. Clearly an intellectual, he describes in detail the glory of feasts he threw—and the math behind them.