Roy, Nineveh, sorry. I don't think that it was ever established what kind of a swallow it was. Perhaps swallows visited Nineveh at one time, or silently conquered the Assyrian Empire in much the same way house cats conquered the Egyptians and more recently a large part of the modern world. It would explain a lot of things - if humans were not really the ones in control . . . but I digress, - TJ