Excavations at Nineveh: The Halzi Gate
By Diana Pickworth
Abstract: In this article, Pickworth summarises the findings of the 1989-1990 University of California excavations around the defensive Halzi Gate at Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire and once the most populous city in the world. The gate is revealed to have been a vital city defence around which fierce fighting was waged between the Assyrians and a force comprised of Medes and Babylonians in the late 7th century BCE.
Academic Journal Article in: Iraq, Vol. 67, No. 1, Nineveh. Papers of the 49th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Part Two (Spring, 2005) pp. 295-316.
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