Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The assyrians: the history of the most prominent empire of the ancient near east, paperback/charles river editors

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Includes pictures Discusses Assyrian military tactics, religious practices, and more Includes ancient Assyrian accounts documenting their military campaigns and more Includes a bibliography for further reading I fought daily, without interruption against Taharqa, King of Egypt and Ethiopia, the one accursed by all the great gods.

Five times I hit him with the point of my arrows inflicting wounds from which he should not recover, and then I laid siege to Memphis his royal residence, and conquered it in half a day by means of mines, breaches and assault ladders.

- Esarhaddon I captured 46 towns.

by consolidating ramps to bring up battering rams, by infantry attacks, mines, breaches and siege engines.

- Sennacherib When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremely brutal consequences (at least by modern standards) often stand out.

Forced removal of entire populations, sieges that decimated entire cities, and wanton destruction of property were all tactics used by the various peoples of the ancient Near East against each other, but the Assyrians were the first people to make war a science.

When the Assyrians are mentioned, images of war and brutality are among the first that come to mind, despite the fact that their culture prospered for nearly 2, 000 years.

Like a number of ancient individuals and empires in that region, the negative perception of ancient Assyrian culture was passed down through Biblical accounts, and regardless of the accuracy of the Bible's depiction of certain events, the Assyrians clearly played the role of adversary for the Israelites.

Indeed, Assyria (Biblical Shinar) and the Assyrian people played an important role in many books of the Old Testament and are first mentioned in the book of Genesis: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land went forth Ashur and built Nineveh and the city Rehoboth and Kallah.

10: 10-11).