- Nīnawā; Syriac: ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also
known in
early modern times as
Kuyunjik for it
northern part, was an
ancient ****yrian city of
Upper Mesopotamia...
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contacts with
lower Mesopotamia. On the Tigris, the site of
Nineveh (Tell
Kuyunjik,
level 4) was
located on some
major commercial routes and was also within...
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create a canal. c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: "Head of a man from Nineveh" (modern
Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad. c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC:...
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Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta, who had been
excavating at
Kuyunjik (the
contemporary village atop the
mound of Nineveh)
without success, was...
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excited by the
ruins of
Nimrud on the Tigris, and by the
great mound of
Kuyunjik, near Mosul,
already partly excavated by Paul-Émile Botta.
Layard remained...
- Qala'at Sherqat) in the south, by
Nineveh (modern
Mosul with the ruin
mounds Kuyunjik and Nebi Yunus) in the
north and by
Arbela (modern Erbil) in the east....
- ****urbanipal and his
Queen in the garden, from the
palace at
Nineveh (modern
Kuyunjik, Iraq) is completed. It is now in The
British Museum, London. 645 BC —...
- gates,
parts of
walls on four sides, and two
large mounds: the hill of
Kuyunjik and hill of Nabi Yunus. A
mosque atop Nabi
Yunus was
dedicated to Jonah...
- 1842 the
French consul in Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta,
hired men to dig at
Kuyunjik, the
largest mound at Nineveh.
Little was
found until a
local farmer suggested...
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secured by Mohl,
extensive excavations at Nineveh,
particularly on the huge
Kuyunjik mound.
Because the
ancient ruins of
Nineveh were
hidden so deep
under layers...
