The Tower of Babel is remembered due to the famed story within the Old Testament. But tablets excavated in Iraq provide an Assyrian version of the same story.
Nineveh was the last capital of the Assyrian Empire, as well as its most populous city. It has even been claimed that Nineveh was the most populated city in the world for a period. In recent times, the remains of Nineveh have suffered much damage as a consequence of the war that has been raging on in the region.
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