Empire Deportation Tag

The long march of deportees begins. From A.H. Layard, A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (1853). Public Domain, courtesy of The New York Public Library.

February 16, 2021

Neo-Assyrian Deportation and the Levant

February 2021 | Vol. 9.2 By Jonathan Valk At the height of its power in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, the Neo-Assyrian state could truly call itself a universal empire. It exercis