Nineveh

(nin'e-va-) (Anc. Geog.) A celebrated city, anciently the C. of As syria, supposed to have been founded by Nimrod, abt. B. c. 2218, (or by Ninus, 2182,) and destroyed by Cyaxares in 625. The English archæologist, Mr. Layard, succeeded, in 1845, in making excavations on its site, which gave to the world antiquarian remains of great interest and value. [s. 647]