Calneh was said to be one of the four cities founded by Nimrod, according to Genesis 10:10 in the Bible. Its identity's uncertain, and remains a mystery. The verse in question reads, ...the beginning of his [Nimrod's] kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar, and some scholars have proposed that this isn't actually a proper name, but merely the Hebrew word meaning "all of them". Calneh was traditionally identified with Ctesiphon, as in Jerome's writings (Hebrew… (More on Calneh)