Rethinking Austen Henry Layard
Scholars and others associate Austen Henry Layard with the site of Nineveh. But a fuller appreciation of the man, and his accomplishments, must reckon with his work as a diplomat,
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