wonders of the ancient world that must have been magnificent in its prime. He constructed a new city wall with eighteen gates, temples, roads, bridges, canals and a great palace which he called ‘The Palace without Rival’. Sennacherib filled his new city with plazas, gardens and a large botanical and zoological park next to his palace. The citizens of Nineveh were given plots of land on which to plant orchards. Esarhaddon, his son, built the main arsenal at Nineveh, and also a palace on the mound