Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in ...

Historical sources indicate that Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant ended with a siege of Jerusalem, then the capital of ...

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on ...

"What makes this exhibit significant," explains, Michael Danti, Director of Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, "is that our ...

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.

Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire population of the world three thousand years ago was only about 50 million ...

The Destruction of Sennacherib is a short narrative poem retelling a Biblical story from the Old Testament (2 Kings, chapter 19) in which God destroys King Sennacherib’s Assyrian army as they ...

"is that our excavations inside of one of the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh uncovered sculptures of King Sennacherib, a very important ruler of ancient Syria. These were surprised to ...