Assyrian Army Assault on Lachish

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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published on 19 July 2014
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Assyrian relief, from the South-West palace at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Mousil city, Iraq), room XXXVI, panel 7, Neo-Assyrian Empire, 700-692 BCE.

This wall relief delivers a very vivid description of the battlefield. The Assyrian army built artificial ramps leading up to the city in order to transport their heavy equipment right up to the walls and gate.
On the right, the Assyrian archers attack the city with their bows and arrows. On the left, siege engines are being pushed slowly up the ramps. In the middle of the scene, the enemy soldiers are defending their city tower and are bombarding the attackers with arrows, stones, and torches. Within the siege engine, the Assyrian archers appear to attack the tower and pour water onto the battering ram so that it will not catch fire. Some people of the city are leaving Lachish through a gate within the tower.

The British Museum, London.

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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