Nineveh
190This Ain't Your Mom's Traditional Greek/Roman Classical Education
22 Apr 2024
5:30¶ 20
“They never made it. We don’t really know what happened to his friend, but they parted company in Mesopotamia because they each had things…”
5:53¶ 21
“Layard went out and kind of kicked around in it and began to get really suspicious and eventually arranged for some digging to be…”
6:37¶ 23
“There actually was a Nineveh and it was kind of big and impressive and important.” Then they looked out over the wilderness and saw…”
136The Lost Empire
19 Sep 2022
38:18¶ 138
“Nahum also describes the final downfall of Assyria when there is no repentance. And when it’s all done and all gone, it just evaporated…”
39:07¶ 139
“And then one young man, a dilettante on his way to the far east at the height of the British empire to look for…”
39:40¶ 140
“He then eventually hires native diggers and they start uncovering huge statues, winged lions with the heads of kings and so on. He discovered…”
21Angels Unawares
24 May 2020
48:33¶ 180
“At that point, historians said Nineveh was a myth. The Bible made it up. It never existed. There was no record of it. It…”
48:16¶ 179
“Layard went out one morning or afternoon or something and began kicking around in the dirt, and began to think, “This does not look…”
1:04¶ 4
“Austen Henry Layard “accidentally discovered” the ruins of Nineveh in 1845 when he was only twenty-eight. His excavations created, and pretty much filled up,…”