It now exists only as two mounds of rubble, called "kuyunjik" and "nebiyunus," surrounded by a brick wall some 7 miles around.
It now exists only as two mounds of rubble, called "kuyunjik" and "nebiyunus," surrounded by a brick wall some 7 miles around. Founded around 5500 BC, it was rebuilt by Tiglath Pilezar I around 1050 BC, and Sennacherib later made it the seat of his empire. Excavations of its library have yielded many famous texts, most notably the Epic of Gilgamesh. For ten points, name this ancient city on the Tigris River, the last and greatest capital of the Assyrian Empire.
It now exists only as two mounds of rubble, called "kuyunjik" and "nebiyunus," surrounded by a brick wall some 7 miles around.
Nineveh