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  • keen to discover the long lost cities of Assyria. The only accounts of their ... Botta's passion was to find the lost cities of Assyria, famous ...
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  • (1846-51) and Outline of the History of Assyria (1852), both reprinted from ... on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylonia and Assyria. 1850. ...
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  • Ashurbanipal (Akkadian: Aššur-bāni-apli; 685 B.C.E. – 627 B.C.E.), was the last great king of ancient Assyria. During his rule, Assyrian ...
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  • was captured by king Shalmaneser of Assyria, and taken into exile. According ... idolatry (ch 4). An attempt to ally Assyria will prove futile, as both ...
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  • prosperous reign. Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria, meanwhile, increased considerably ... the coming of an invader (probably Assyria) against Jerusalem, in the ...
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  • dating of Nahum is the possibility that Assyria may represent less a historical ... to the god of the super-power, the god of Assyria, stood in the centre of ...
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  • Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (705 B.C.E. – 681 B.C.E.). In 701 B.C.E., an Egyptian-backed rebellion broke out in Judah ...
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  • to make explorations among the ruins of Assyria. Layard subsequently ... *Larsen, Mogens T. 1996. The Conquest of Assyria. Routledge. ISBN ...
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  • help—turned back the rampaging armies of Assyria that had ravaged the nation ... of God's wrath was the rising power of the Assyria. ...
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  • trade and religious center and was Assyria's capital city from ... It later became the capital of the [[Assyria|Neo-Assyrian Empire]].]] ...
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  • northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon of Assyria. Judah absorbed many refugees ... but his decision to rebel against Assyria, whose vassal Judah had ...
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  • to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here." But Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families ...
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  • primarily of prophecies against Babylon, Assyria, Philistia, Moab, Syria ... #039;s wrath would be the rising power of the Assyria. Indeed, in 722 ...
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  • was spared, but it became a vassal state of Assyria. joined in a military coalition against Assyria. Before the might of the ...
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  • the later civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria, where he had a major temple ... in all the large cities of Babylonia and Assyria. Sîn's chief sanctuary ...
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  • to the advancing armies of Sennacharib of Assyria. independence to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria by 732 B.C.E., and revolts ...
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  • B.C.E.). The latter name was later used by two Assyria|Assyrian kings: Ishme-Dagan I (c. 1782–1742 BCE) and Ishme-Dagan II (c. 1610–1594 BCE). ...
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  • to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out ... him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria." Zerubbabel rebuffed ...
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  • on Egyptian relations with Babylonia, Assyria, the Mitanni, the Hittites ... and moving northwest and eastward toward Assyria and Mittani, then southward ...
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  • goats were raised. It is very similar to Assyria in climate, and was settled ... the area of the political entity known to Assyria as Hanilgalbat. There is ...
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