Using the MadMapper projection mapping software each element of the relief was carefully picked out and given the appropriate color. The end result was an exhibit that was convincing enough to fool ...

Sennacherib mobilised the Assyrian imperial army ... And so the cycle of war that these reliefs show - brutal, pitiless, and devastating for the civilian population - was about to begin all ...

Lachish Reliefs (made around 700 BC ... and it was the result of the prodigious Assyrian war-machine. Lachish, about 25 miles (40 km) south-west of Jerusalem, is today known as Tell ed-Duweir.

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian ... reliefs, including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham, depicts the results of civil ...

The eight marble reliefs show finely chiselled war scenes, grape vines and palm trees. They date back to the Assyrian King Sennacherib, who ruled the ancient city of Nineveh from 705 to 681 BC ...