Biblical city
Nineveh
Mosul, Iraq · Assyria
The last great capital of Assyria, Nineveh was the city Jonah was sent to and the target of Nahum's oracle of judgment. Its palace reliefs and the library of Ashurbanipal, recovered in the nineteenth century, remain primary sources for Assyrian history.
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