The Battle of Nineveh

The destruction of nineveh was a moral judgment on an empire that had wrought such suffering on the lands of others. The medes made no attempt to occupy them, and instead set about destroying the cities with the same viciousness that the assyrians had once reserved for the cities of elam. One general named ashur ubalit seems to have held out a brave resistance to the invaders, gathering what remained of the assyrian army around him. These were mostly troops brought back from egypt who had arrived too late for the defence of nineveh. They shut themselves up in the town of haran. And i wonder whether any of them remembered that this was the place where,