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Multi-periodSite Name: Nineveh Alternative Name: NinuaCountry: Iraq
NOTE: This site is 3.677 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mosul Nearest Village: Kuyunjik
Latitude: 36.366840N Longitude: 43.156343E
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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According to Hellenistic texts Ninus was the eponymous founder of Nineveh. Nineveh was mentioned about 1800 BCE as the location of the temple of Ištar. Nineveh was a vassals city of Mitanni's until the mid 14th century BCE, when the Assyrian kings of Assur seized it. The neo-Assyrian kings, particularly Ashurnasirpal II who reigned between 883 and 859 BCE started building great monuments.
Successive kings repaired and founded new palaces and temples to Sîn, Nergal, Šamaš, Ištar, and Nabiu of Borsippa. Sennacherib in 700 BCE laid out fresh avenues and squares and built a great palace about 210 by 200 Meters. A large number of clay tablets were found in the palace and allowed us to reconstruct the Epic of Gilgamesh. Nineveh had 15 great gates in its walls and 18 canals bringing water from the hills for the more than 100,000 inhabitants. Assyria was a very militaristic state which conquered much of the middle east.
Nineveh was, however, destroyed in 612 BCE by the Medes, Babylonians and Susianians and remained unoccupied until the city of Mosul on the opposite bank of the river Tigris rose up again centuries later. In the early 19th century, the French consul at Mosul began to research the mounds on the opposite bank of the Tigris.
Later, in 1847 Sir Austen Henry Layard first excavated the ruins in the Kuyunjik mound and rediscovered the palace of Sennacherib across the Tigris River from Mosul, with its 71 rooms and colossal bas-reliefs and the famous library of Ashurbanipal with 22,000 inscribed clay tablets. Bas Relief stone slabs are now in many western museums, such as the British Museum, Pergamon Museum and the Metropolitan. The mound at Kuyunjik was excavated by British Museum archaeologists in the early 1900s who discovered the Temple of Nabu.
Note: “What we are proposing is that these demographic and climatic factors played an indirect but significant role in the demise of the Assyrian Empire,” See latest comment.
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