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
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Watch out Lachish – Here come the Babylonians!
In the North things went from bad to worse for the Assyrians and their Egyptian allies against the Babylonians. Defeats … More
Lachish returns to the Judean fold
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
And what of Lachish?
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
What now for the people of Lachish?
Lachish has fallen but what happened to the inhabitants? The likelihood is that a large number were killed. A burial … More
Lachish falls
We left Sennacherib camped outside the walls of the city. We are fortunate in the fact that we have both … More
One Assyrian invasion or two?
There is some debate as to whether there were one or two invasions of Judah by Sennacherib. What has lead … More
The Assyrians come to Lachish
The eighth century, marked the high point of the Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia. Having conquered and subdued the countries to … More
Lachish in the Early Iron Age
The Canaanite city of Lachish was destroyed in the 12th century BCE. It is unclear as to who was responsible … More
Lachish in the Bronze Age
Tel-Lachish was probably first settled in the fourth millennia BCE by early Bronze Age farmers. By the third millennia it … More
