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“NONE WAS LEFT.” Israel’s capital city of Samaria was conquered by the Assyrian king Sargon II in 720 BCE. Rather than destroying the city, the Assyrians turned Samaria into the region’s administrative capital, governed from its acropolis, shown here. Confirming biblical claims of mass Israelite deportations, Assyrian sources record displacement of the local population and resettling of the land with deportees from eastern parts of the Assyrian Empire.