Fall of Nineveh
“Assyrian heartland, August 612 BCE. The walls of Nineveh burn as Medes and Babylonians pour through breaches. Foreground shows looted reliefs of winged bulls torn from palace gates; midground reveals royal scribes flinging cuneiform tablets into wells to save them; the Tigris reflects the orange glow of a collapsing empire under a smoke-black sky.”
