The great city would eventually be abandoned by his ... he actually appears to be describing the walls of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire. He describes a hunting scene that resembles ...

(705-681 BCE) and which stretches 12km along the city of Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), is being partially bulldozed by private contractors. Activists and locals say they fear the remains will be used as ...

one of the great cities of antiquity, now called Mosul, Iraq. In the Bible, Jonah was ordered to go to Nineveh and warn the people about the city’s impending destruction because they were so evil.