Great Assyrian capital on the Tigris, founded in the Nimrod tradition (10:11); its mounds (Kuyunjik, opposite modern Mosul) have been excavated for nearly two centuries. Later the setting of Jonah.
📍 Nineveh — modern-day Kuyunjik mound, opposite Mosul, Iraq
🗺️ No ancient-world overlay on the shelf yet for this site — a period map
showing how the region actually looked in the biblical world gets added here as Mr. Librarian curates one,
the same way the encyclopedia's film shelf grows.
Bible Evidence Unearthed at Nineveh!