A TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HAVE UNCOVERED INTRICATE ROCK CARVINGS IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF NINEVEH.
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It was constructed on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades.
Today, Nineveh’s location is marked by two large mounds, Tell Kuyunjiq and Tell Nabī Yūnus “Prophet Jonah”, which are surrounded by a massive stone and mudbrick wall dating from about 700 BC.
In 2010, a report titled Saving Our Vanishing Heritage, Global Heritage Fund named Nineveh as being “on the verge” of irreparable destruction and loss, citing insufficient management by the authorities, development pressures and looting as primary causes. READ MORE...
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