The Great Assyrian City of Nineveh

Nineveh was an enormous city for the time, surrounded by a moat filled with water from the river tigris. The city would have been a kaleidoscope of roof tops built in a largely unplanned manner and its alleyways would have been covered with reed awnings to keep off the heat. In the courtyards of houses, skins of wine and jars of water hang from the rafters to cool. We can imagine a joint of meat boiling in a clay pot on a fireplace,. smells of baking bread wafting from a clay charcoal oven near by. A recipe for lamb stew shows the kind of smells that would have been wafting through the city streets