Nineveh

Nineveh, Assyrian Ninua ({{coor dm|36|22|N|43|07|E|}}), was an important city in ancient Assyria now lying in the modern city of Mosul, Iraq. This "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris, along which it stretched for some 50 kilometres (30 miles), having an average breadth of 20 km (10 mi) or more from the river back toward the eastern hills. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins.

External links

• John Malcolm Russell, "Stolen stones: the modern sack of Nineveh" in Archaeology; looting of sculptures in the 1990s.
• Nineveh page at the British Museum's website. Includes photographs of items from their collection.