Israelite and Judahite Ambassadors to Assyria
In antiquity as today, ambassadors were the representatives of their states in foreign lands. But whose interests did ambassadors from small states to terrifying empires really rep
Why Did Sennacherib Create Two Accounts of His Siege of Lachish?
Sennacherib’s reliefs from his palace at Nineveh famously show the destruction of the Judean city of Lachish. But why do the written accounts of the conquest differ from the reli