{"id":3724,"date":"2010-06-10T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T12:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ninus-king\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:46:45","slug":"ninus-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ninus-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninus, King"},"content":{"rendered":"

King <\/strong>N<\/strong>inus <\/strong>is frequently attributed as the builder of Nin-eveh, in which his name is preserved. Nineveh is today encircled by the modern city of Mosul in Iraq and is reputed to have been the largest city in the world 2,700 years ago. Ashley Cowie<\/a> published a short paper on the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC(e)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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Controversially, Nineveh has recently been claimed(a)<\/sup> as the true location of the legendary \u201cHanging Gardens\u201d rather than Babylon as a result of an earlier mistranslation! A more radical idea has come from Constantinos Ragazas, who insists that G\u00f6bekli Tepe <\/a>is the site of the Hanging Gardens(d)<\/sup>!<\/p>\r\n

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He is also sometimes identified with the biblical Nimrod (Nimrud), Zoroaster<\/a>(b)<\/span><\/sup>, while Alexander Hislop in The Two Babylons<\/em>[1135<\/a>]<\/sup> equates Ninus with Tammuz, Osiris, Adonis and Bacchus(c)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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Ninus’ wife, Semiramis, who reputedly succeeded him to the throne of Assyria, is remembered in legends throughout the Middle East. Jason Colavito recently (2025) investigated an ancient Greek legend that Semiramis built the Egyptian pyramids(g)<\/sup>. Might this be a distortion of an older tale describing the building of the Mesopotamian ziggurats?<\/p>\r\n

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Anton Mifsud<\/a> used the reign of Ninus as an anchor for his preferred date\u00a0for the destruction of Atlantis\u00a0of around 2200 BC. He points out[<\/sup>209<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that Eumelos of Cyrene<\/a> dated the demise of Plato\u2019s island to the reign of Ninus and links this with the calculation of the Roman historian Aemilius Sura (2nd<\/sup> cent. BC)\u00a0\u00a0who placed the reign of Ninus around 2192 BC. A number of other authorities attribute similar dates to his reign as recorded by John Jackson in volume one of his 1752 Chronological Antiquities<\/em>[1555<\/a>.251]<\/sup>. The collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom also took place around 2200 BC(e)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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David Rohl<\/a>, a leading advocate for a radical revision of the accepted chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, identifies Nimrod as the great-grandson of Noah and goes further with a claim[<\/sup>230<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that he was also known as Enmerkar, King of Uruk, and places his reign around 2900 BC. On the other hand, The American Encyclopaedia<\/em> opts for a date circa 1230 BC.<\/p>\r\n

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(a)<\/sup> The Hanging Gardens of \u2026 Nineveh? (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(b)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninus<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(c)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/www.cbcg.org\/twobaby\/sect221.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(d) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/271076011_The_Hanging_Gardens_of_Gobekli_Tepe<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

(e)<\/sup> (BBC<\/em> July 26, 2001) http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/1458327.stm<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(f)<\/sup> August 10 612 BC: Nineveh, the Largest City in the World, Fell | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net<\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/the-forgotten-legend-of-how-semiramis-built-the-egyptian-pyramids<\/a>
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