The Names of the Cities of Nineveh and Nimrud

Greeks marched 34 kilometerst great stronghold, deep deserted and lying in ruins. Xenophon asked local people he encountered who had built such enormous constructions out there in the desert. No one he spoke to could tell him anything. And it seemed no one even knew the names of these great cities. For more than two centuries, this mighty city had flourished,. boomed into a towering capital home to hundreds of thousands of people. It had given birth to some of the ancient world's most beautiful art and architecture.