[​The citadel itself is 100% complete, but everything else is not]

This is a reconstruction of the royal citadel at the ancient city of Nineveh at its peak (around 630 BCE), which is right at the death of king Ashurbanipal, considered the last great king of Assyria. I tried to make this (mostly) as realistic as possible with the archaeological remains we have, which is not much. All there really is left, especially after the ISIS attacks, are the foundations of the biggest buildings, such as the palaces. There are two palaces in Nineveh: the palace of Sennacherib (745-681 BCE), which was my previous build, and the palace of Ashurbanipal (685-631 BCE), who is Sennacherib's grandson. The size and basic shape of the palaces are very close to how they were two millennia ago, but the color of the buildings and the designs are all made up by me. Same goes for the smaller buildings, like all the houses. Almost none of these remain today, and so I pretty much made all that up. In my mind, they are the homes of the most rich and powerful Assyrians in the empire. Here are all the buildings that actually existed: palace of Sennacherib, palace of Ashurbanipal, temple of Nabu, temple of Ishtar, the ziggurat and an unnamed administrative building west of Sennacherib's palace. The gardens of Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal both did exist, but their exact locations and what they generally looked like are unknown, so I took some liberties with that.

Anyway, this build is not complete, but the actual citadel part is. I decided to upload it because the progress on this has been coming to a halt. It might've been a bit too ambitious lol. One of these days I might complete it but I'll leave it like this for now and focus on other things. If you're a history nerd like me, I think you'll enjoy this, especially if you are a fan of Mesopotamian history since there aren't many builds about this period and region.

Have fun exploring!