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Ashurbanipal's campaign against Susa is triumphantly recorded in this relief showing the sack of Susa in 647 BC. Here, flames rise from the city as Assyrian soldiers topple it with pickaxes and crowbars and carry off the spoils.
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Zereshk. (2012, April 26). Destruction of Susa. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/144/destruction-of-susa/
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Zereshk. "Destruction of Susa." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 26, 2012. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/144/destruction-of-susa/.
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