In 1851, Austen Henry Layard discovered this city's Library of Ashurbanipal.
It's not Babylon, but by the false account in Walter Raleigh's History of the World, this city was called Campsor before it was rebuilt by its founder, an opponent of the Bactrian king Zoroaster and husband of the warrior queen Semiramis. Berossus gives this city's last ruler as Saracos, who corresponds to Sinsharishkun ("sin-shah-reesh-KOON") in the archaeological record. In 2015, this city's walls and its Nergal gate, including a statue of a lamassu, were damaged by ISIS fighters. This city was sacked by a coalition including Scythians assembled in 612 BC by the Median king Cyaxares ("kye-ax-AIR-ees"), ending the dominance of a line that included Tiglath-Pileser III. In 1851, Austen Henry Layard discovered this city's Library of Ashurbanipal. For 10 points, what capital of the Assyrian empire was supposedly visited by Jonah?
It's not Babylon, but by the false account in Walter Raleigh's History of the World, this city was called Campsor before it was rebuilt by its founder, an opponent of the Bactrian king Zoroaster and husband of the warrior queen Semiramis.
Nineveh [or Ninua] (Semiramis is the husband of Ninus.) &lt;Old Euro/NE History&gt;