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- an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq
How To Use Nineveh In A Sentence
- We have to disentomb the remains of the Thebes and the Ninevehs to get at the history of their ancient monarchs.
- Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit -- the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of M.sopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
- [6] This expression of Josephus, that the Medes, upon this destruction of the Assyrian army, "overthrew" the Assyrian empire, seems to be too strong; for although they immediately cast off the Assrian yoke, and set up Deioces, a king of their own, yet it was some time before the Medes and Babylonians overthrew Nineveh, and some generations ere the Antiquities of the Jews
- The library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh included catalogues of stellary and planetary observations, among others the times of Venus, Jupiter and Mars, and the phases of the moon, for every day in the month. [ A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
- Nineveh, which had outrivalled Damascus, the Smile of the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Rapidly traversing the shrubless, herbless plains of Mesopotamia, they reached at length the town of Mosul, the point from which travellers proceed to visit the ruins of Nineveh. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
- Assyria, "and there" builded "Nineveh and Calah, The cuneiform inscriptions have informed us who this builder of Calah was. Patriarchal Palestine
- From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
- This Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered in 1853 during excavations in the ruins of Nineveh, together with over twenty thousand other clay tablets from the library of King Assurbanipal 668–626 BC. Modern Science in the Bible
- The same method, it is understood, has been applied to the deciphering of the cuneiform records recently disentombed from the ruins of Nineveh.