Yet it was here that Saint Isaac of Nineveh (also known as Isaac the Syrian ... the Eastern mystic today is a symbol of the unity between the Catholic and the Assyrian Churches.

However, some people have claimed online that there's one interesting coincidence about the eclipse's path of totality: It will pass through every city in the United States named Nineveh.

Nineveh faced further damage from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants when they destroyed the 1970s reconstruction of the Mashki Gate, a “symbol of Iraq’s long history,” in 2016. The carvings ...