Frahm said Assyrian inscriptions suggest that while Sennacherib blockaded Jerusalem, he didn't try to take it by storming it ...

Constructed in Israel, the Assyrian siege ramp at Lachish is the only surviving physical example of their military prowess in the entire Near East. Now, for the first time, a team of ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Israel might corroborate a dramatic biblical account, potentially shedding light on the ancient siege of Jerusalem by Assyrian King Sennacherib. This finding ...

An aerial photo of the Tel Lachish in central Israel, which was quickly conquered by the Assyrians with their powerful siege ramp in 701 BC. The Assyrian siege ramp is the focus of a new study ...

Languages: English, Spanish An archaeologist's discovery may corroborate parts of an epic biblical story detailing an infamous siege of Jerusalem ... camps set up by the Assyrian King Sennacherib ...

The siege ramp in Lachish is the biggest surviving siege ramp in the Near East, and the only surviving Assyrian siege ramp. The study, published last month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology ...

Constructed in Israel, the Assyrian siege ramp at Lachish is the only surviving physical example of their military prowess in the entire Near East. Now, for the first time, a team of ...

Siege scene with two massive L-shaped shields protecting Assyrian soldiers, in a relief from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud (photo credit: Courtesy of the British Museum) About 2,700 ...

Both were made-to-order siege engines of battlefield superiority. And they kicked copious amounts of ass. The design for the traction trebuchet was born in Asia and spread throughout Europe and ...

Some internet genius has one-upped us all today, taking Under Siege and recutting it as a ... until I helped a team of Assyrian wisemen invent the talkie in 3057.” -Steven Seagal.