Uruk – The world’s first city (1)

In a series of posts I am going to look at the story of the city of Uruk in Mesopotamia. … More

Celsus Library

Ephesus is definately one of the places on my travel list

Buildings inside Tel Lachish photo by Orientalizing (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orientalizing/) Like the Assyrians before them, the Babylonians carried out a policy of … More

In the North things went from bad to worse for the Assyrians and their Egyptian allies against the Babylonians. Defeats … More

Tel Lachish (The gateway) photo by Orientalizing (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orientalizing/) At some point in the late seventh century, the area around Lachish … More

Tel Lachish photo by Orientaliziing (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orientalizing/) Back in Judah the site of the city and the land which surrounded it … More

Lachish has fallen but what happened to the inhabitants? The likelihood is that a large number were killed. A burial … More

We left Sennacherib camped outside the walls of the city. We are fortunate in the fact that we have both … More

There is some debate as to whether there were one or two invasions of Judah by Sennacherib. What has lead … More

The eighth century, marked the high point of the Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia. Having conquered and subdued the countries to … More