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