19 Facts About Nineveh

Nineveh was an important junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris on the great roadway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, it received wealth from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the last capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

Nineveh was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity.

The context of Nineveh was as one of many centers within the regional development of Upper Mesopotamia.

Caves in the Zagros Mountains adjacent to the north side of the Nineveh Plains were used as PPNA settlements, most famously Shanidar Cave.

Deep sounding at Nineveh uncovered soil layers that have been dated to early in the era of the Hassuna archaeological culture.

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The development and culture of Nineveh paralleled Tepe Gawra and Tell Arpachiyah a few kilometers to the northeast.

Nineveh was a typical farming village in the Halaf Period.

In 5000 BC, Nineveh transitioned from a Halaf village to an Ubaid village.

Greater Nineveh area is notable in the diffusion of metal technology across the near east as the first location outside of Anatolia to smelt copper.

Nineveh became a trade colony of Uruk during the Uruk Expansion because of its location as the highest navigable point on the Tigris.

Ishtar of Nineveh was conflated with Sauska from the Hurro-Urartian pantheon.

The Assyrian city of Nineveh became one of Mitanni's vassals for half a century until the early 14th century BC.

Nineveh laid out new streets and squares and built within it the South West Palace, or "palace without a rival", the plan of which has been mostly recovered and has overall dimensions of about 503 by 242 metres.

Nineveh was the flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire and was the home of King Sennacherib, King of Assyria, during the Biblical reign of King Hezekiah and the lifetime of Judean prophet Isaiah.

Location of Nineveh was known, to some, continuously through the Middle Ages.

Nineveh unearthed the palace and famous library of Ashurbanipal with 22,000 cuneiform clay tablets.

The study of the archaeology of Nineveh reveals the wealth and glory of ancient Assyria under kings such as Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal.

Today, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Tell Kuyunjiq and Tell Nabi Yunus "Prophet Jonah", and the remains of the city walls.

Nineveh is mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's 1897 poem Recessional and in Arthur O'Shaughnessy's 1873 poem Ode.