[blam]

"mosul is not Nineveh -- Nineveh was rediscovered by a British archaelogist in the 19th century when he brought the columns, statues etc back tot he British museum in london"

Okay. It is very close though.

[Cronos]

You are correct -- Mosul would be near Nineveh. However, I did pooh-pooh the idea that they would be one and the same city because Nineveh, like Carthage in a way, was destroyed by its enemies and forgotten. The longest, continuously lived in city in the world, is, however, near that place -- Damascus.