Surviving source material in regards to individual Assyrian queens is very scarce; while alive, queens appear to rarely have been designated by name and as such, the majority of available references concerning them are funerary texts and inscriptions.[1] The names of many queens thus remain unknown.[32] The most extensive information concerning the queens has been recovered from the Queens' tombs at Nimrud, discovered in 1988.[1] Often, very little historical information is available for each queen.