Thrilled that my work tracking down Sennacherib’s military camps (and a few biblical sites) has been peer reviewed and published in the prestigious journal Near Eastern Archaeology.
Below is a link to the article. (Unfortunately, everything but the abstract is behind a paywall.)
The image below is a relief of King Sennacherib’s military camp that he had displayed on his palace wall. It is now prominently featured in the British Museum. The locations of his camps had never been found, so I spent several years tracking them down. The results were exciting and opened other historical doors, such as the locations of some lost cities that had been besieged by the Assyrians and were marked by such camps.
Below is Jebel el Mudawwara, which I argue was the site of Sennacherib’s Jerusalem siege camp. This camp was featured in three books of the Bible, in famous art (including by Ruben and Doré), and in the poetry of Lord Byron.
Below is the site that I identified as the location of Sennacherib’s camp during his siege of Lachish, the camp depicted in the relief above.
