nineveh

Never mind that at the time Lucian wrote that (2nd century AD), Nineveh was still standing and inhabited.

In the dialog, Hermes notes there's no trace of Nineveh left, suggesting Babylon would soon share the same fate.

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah – which is the great city.

The ruins of Nineveh still exist, but they are in northern Iraq, not Syria.

Nor do we know precisely when Nineveh fell, and that event is recorded in the records of multiple cultures.

When Jonah's sent to the city of Nineveh on a mission to urge them to repentance for their sinful ways, that's pretty much Iraq too.

Or, check out the Assyrians' inverted siphon for the Nineveh Aqueducts.

Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq 9..

Nowhere does Hermes suggest Nineveh never existed.

* Sennacherib returned to Nineveh after the siege instead of continuing his campaign.

In 400BC, Xenophon, while retreating from a failed attempt at taking Babylon, came across the abandoned ruins of a bunch of Assyrian cities, like Nineveh and wrote about them.

We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

It just so happens that those "bricks" are frozen blocks of ground beef and you're building a foundation at Nineveh.

Wikipedia says that "Nineveh, an Indian merchant ship, was wrecked on a reef near the island" in 1867 - is this it?

Myths can be true, like, you know, the existence of Nineveh (yes, it was a "Myth" and then it was proved true).

A favorite example of mine is how we hear of the "Hanging Gardens of Bablyon" (edit: instead of Nineveh) seems mostly to be from the Greeks not caring much the difference between one city and another in the Middle East.[1] (where it also seems "Archimedes' Screw" should also be attributed to someone else).

Xenophon did not know that it was Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, last of the great Mesopotamian empires.

The city being references is believed to be Nineveh(1), which was indeed a capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at one point.

Israel, of course, was earlier destroyed by the Assyrians, who had been a definite superpower but saw their glory days end with Nineveh.