This city has been supposed to represent the Biblical Resen; but the description of that place as lying "_between_ Nineveh and Calah" seems to render the identification worse than uncertain.
The ruins at Kileh-Sherghat are the last of any extent towards the south, possessing a decidedly Assyrian character.

To complete our survey, therefore of the chief Assyrian towns, we must return northwards, and, passing Nineveh, direct our attention to the magnificent ruins on the small stream of the Khosrsu, which have made the Arab village of Khorsabad one of the best known names in Oriental topography.

About nine miles from the north-east angle of the wall of Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit--the scene of the labors of M.Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of Mesopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace.

The enclosure at Khorsabad is nearly square in shape, each side being about 2000 yards long.

No part of it is very lofty, but the walls are on every side well marked.