A Failed Coup: The Assassination of Sennacherib and the Assyrian Civil War of 681 BC
When the Assyrian king Sennacherib was assassinated in 680 BC, it launched a civil war amongst his sons. How did Esarhaddon come out on top? And what were the consequences for the
Did an Academic Outsider Determine What Saved Jerusalem from Conquest by the Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib in 701 BCE?
Academics don’t have all the answers. A new look at a neglected book by a journalist suggests an intriguing solution to the question of who saved Jerusalem from Sennacherib’s a
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