Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq: view SE from NW wall of the Assyrian city to the citadel mound of Kuyunjik, site of the palaces of Sennecherib & Ashurbanipal.

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Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq: view SE from the NW wall of the Assyrian city to the citadel mound of Kuyunjik, site of the palaces of Sennecherib & Ashurbanipal. What was the lower town is under cultivation using square embanked irrigation plots. In the C7thBC Nineveh was the royal capital of the Assyrian empire (Sennacherib had moved the capital from Khorsabad) until sacked by the Babylonians and Medes in 612BC. This photo taken February 1983, Mosul and Nineveh both subsequently damaged by Daesh and related conflict.

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Size: 3780px × 2627px
Location: Nineveh (Ninua, Ninawa), Mosul, Northern Iraq.
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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