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The Assyrian destruction of the Judahite city of Lachish in 701 BCE—just 30
years later than that of Gezer—is one of the best-illustrated sieges of antiquity.
Stone reliefs, such as the one shown here, which depicts the walled city, attacked by wheeled battering rams, with missiles flying back and forth. Other reliefs show the violence of war, with prisoners beheaded, impaled or being lead away. The reliefs were found in the palace of the Assyrian King Sennacherib at Nineveh, but can now be seen at the British Museum in London.