Friday, December 10, 2021

Sennacherib

 Ozymandias, king of kings, meet Sennacherib, king of the world.

About 700 years before the birth of Christ, the restless Assyrian listed his deeds on palace walls and artifacts.

"I led vast armies," Sennacherib writes. "I made the desert bloom and built splendid palaces in Nineveh. Best of all, when the king of Judea misbehaved, I stuck him in a birdcage for a while.


Source:
Manuela Hoelterhoff. In Iraq, lost wonder of world crumbles, bombs explode. In Newsletter of the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry, June 2014, Nr. 159, p. 85. http://archaeometry.org.gr/_files/newsletter/Newsletter%20159.pdf


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