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Who first surveyed and mapped the ruins of Nineveh?
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Nineveh
The partially reconstructed Nergal Gate in Nineveh, Iraq.
The first person to survey and map the ruins of Nineveh was the archaeologist Claudius J. Rich in 1820. This foundational work was later completed by Felix Jones and published in 1854.1