CyArk partnered with the British Museum to document a large portion of the Assyrian Collection over a 3 day period in August of 2014. The goal of the project was not only to digitize the collection but to re-visualize the collection. In this early animation you can see the reliefs lit by torch light similar to how it may have been seen over 2,500 years ago. The data in this animation was captured with the Artec Eva, a structured-light scanner. About the relief: Lachish was one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Judah in the southern Levant and in 701 BC it was captured by the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704-681 BC). The siege followed the refusal of Lachish to pay tribute to the Assyrian Empire (based in modern northern Iraq) and is mentioned in the Bible. Many of the relief sculptures on display in this room depict the capture of the city, alongside a selection of items and weaponry used in the siege. A “prism” inscribed with an Assyrian account of the campaign is also on show.

Visit the Old Testament site of Lachish, with Biblical Israel Ministries & Tours. The city was a Canaanite and Israelite/Judean city located in the southern "Shephelah" (Lowlands) of Judah. The Canaanite city was taken by Joshua, while the Judean city was later destroyed by the Babylonians. The famous "Lachish Letters" (ostraca) were discovered here.

2 Kings and Isaiah mention the story of the Assyrian King Sennacherib who conquers Lachish and surrounds Jerusalem, taking money and yet failing to finish the siege after an abnormal disaster in their camp. Extra-Biblical evidence tells the same strange story.

Learn more at http://lachish.org/

When King Hezekiah rebelled against Assyria in 701 BCE, Sennacherib launched a campaign against Judah and conquered all of its fortified cities. Sennacherib immortalized the conquest of the city of Lachish in huge reliefs that he installed in his palace in the Iraqi city of Nineveh. This animated video brings alive the reliefs uncovered in archaeological excavations and dramatically depicts the Assyrian war machines assaulting the city. The inhabitants of Lachish appear in the reliefs as they valiantly fight from the walls and then as they are brought a as humiliated prisoners of war before Sennacherib, seated on his throne.

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Second city in Ancient Judah, we know of it's seige and capture by the Assyrians from the Bible and from Assyrian written sources and pictures. We also know something of its later capture by Babylon in the time of Jeremiah.