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Lachish battle reliefs in King Sennacherib's palace without rival at Nineveh, ancient Assyria.

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In the Southwest Palace at Nineveh (ancient Assyria; modern Mosul, Iraq), King Sennacherib dedicated a special room to his destruction of the Levantine town of Lachish. That battle is also recounted in the Bible. Excavations during the 19th century at Nineveh thus revealed for the first time that accounts in the Bible had a basis in real historic events. ...more
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Lachish battle reliefs in King Sennacherib's palace without rival at Nineveh, ancient Assyria.
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In the Southwest Palace at Nineveh (ancient Assyria; modern Mosul, Iraq), King Sennacherib dedicated a special room to his destruction of the Levantine town of Lachish. That battle is also recounted in the Bible. Excavations during the 19th century at Nineveh thus revealed for the first time that accounts in the Bible had a basis in real historic events.

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