History Fix
History Fix
Shea LaFountaine
Ep. 147 Nineveh: How a Rediscovered Biblical City Provided a Wealth of Knowledge About the Ancient World
38 minutes Posted Jan 25, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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This week I'm uncovering a lost city that was left out of my lost cities two parter (episodes 131 and 132). Nineveh, the capital of the ancient Assyrian Empire, is mentioned in the Bible no less than 19 times. But, for millennia we weren't sure if it was a fictional setting or a real place. All of that changed in the 1840s when British explorer Austen Henry Layard discovered the ruins of a vast metropolis on the banks of the Tigris River that could only be Nineveh. Within those ruins he found...