Assyrians served as villains in the Bible and heroes to modern Romantics like Byron. ... It was, the author claims, “a kind of Singapore of the ancient Near East.” ...

Archaeology news: 'Horrific evidence' proves Bible right about cruel Assyrian armies ARCHAEOLOGICAL discoveries in the Middle East shed light on the cruel practices of the Assyrians and ...

Assyrian Authors Script On Xerxes. Posted 2007-02-27 17:15 GMT 'Among all this multitude of men, there was not one who, ... A 1978 miniseries entitled The Greatest Heroes of the Bible starred Victoria ...

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says. At the ...

But the Assyrians left their mark on the Hebrew Bible anyway, and not just as an object lesson in what happens if you incur the wrath of God. Sennacherib’s father, Sargon II, made every city and ...

The discovery, which is also detailed in Assyrian texts, Greek histories and the Hebrew Bible, could verify the biblical account of 2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37: 36-38 and 2 Chronicles, 32:21.