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“It feels good to be back,” says David Ussishkin as we approach the impressive mound of Lachish, a major military outpost of the Judahite kingdom that fell to a massive Assyrian onslaught in 701 B.C. The Assyrian king Sennacherib celebrated his capture of Lachish with a series of reliefs in his palace at Nineveh, showing his forces laying siege to the town, running a huge battering ram up an assault ramp to the town’s tower and smashing through Lachish’s defenses. Ussishkin looks a good decade younger than his 66 years. Quietly intelligent and formal, he tends not to speak […]

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Footnotes

See the photo showing Ussishkin recording finds in the cave as Yadin dramatically pulls one discovery after another from a basket, in “Return to the Cave of Letters: What Still Lies Buried?” BAR 27:01.