Photos of Nineveh

Relief detail of King Ashurbanipal hunting a lion on horseback, North Palace, Nineveh, 645–635 BC, E by Following Hadrian

Ashurbanipal drives a spear into one lion's mouth <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=366946&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Ashurbanipal+horseback&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collecti...</a>
Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; נינוה, Nīnewē; نينوى, Naīnuwa), an 'exceeding great city', as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of... Read further
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