Nineveh, 700 B.C., 100 thousand inhabitants.
The ancient capital of the Assyrian state was located on the territory of modern Iraq. The city was founded about 6 thousand years ago. But only from the 3rd millennium B.C. it gradually began to transform into a temple center. By the year 700 B.C. the city occupied an area of about 7 square kilometers, had 15 huge gates, 18 canals and many aqueducts. In 612, as a result of a two-year siege, the city was destroyed by a united army of Babylonians and Medes.
