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UNESCO counts more than 1,000 Parthian-period burials at Ashur, and the Met's timeline credits its palace with the earliest example of four iwans around a courtyard. What the two sources show of Parthian Ashur, and where they disagree.
According to UNESCO, Hatra grew from a small village in the first century BC into a large kingdom in the middle of the second century AD, and withstood Roman invasions in 116 and 198 AD. What the page says about its growth, walls and temples, and what it leaves out.
According to the Kelsey Museum, the city "rose, flourished, and dwindled away between 307 BCE and 215 CE", and the excavations of 1927-1937 divided it into four levels. The levels show a city founded as a Seleucid capital that lived on under Parthian rule.
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