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Reconstruction of the north-eastern façade of Sennacherib's palace (Kouyunjik), Assyrian, 1853. Artist: Unknown
Reconstruction of the north-eastern façade of Sennacherib's palace (Kouyunjik), Assyrian, 1853. Sennacherib, King of Assyria (701 BC-681 BC), built a magnificent palace at the kingdom's capital, Nineveh, in northern Iraq. In 612 BC the city was razed to the ground by the Babylonians. The palace was rediscovered in 1847 by the British archaeologist and diplomat Sir Henry Austen Layard. From Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Henry Austen Layard. (London, 1853).
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27-09-2023
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