Nineveh - The Great City of Assyria

The ruins of nineveh would have stood for some time as smoking heaps of blackened rubble, its streets carpeted with bodies. But slowly, the wind blown desert sand s would have rolled over them. Its walls and houses were covered in dust and earth. The skeletons lying in its streets were buried by the sands. The great library of the king ashurbanipal was also buried. In a twist of ironic fate, it was the destruction of nineveh that ensured that its texts were survive the fires that tore through the city. It baked the clay, hardening it meaning that the writing on these tablets was just as sharp on the day they were unearthed by archaeologists as the day an ass