The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation and Destruction of Sennacherib’s Palace at Nineveh, Iraq

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In the “Palace without Rival” at Nineveh, the Assyrian King Sennacherib immortalised his 701 B.C. campaign against Jerusalem with a series of spectacular wall relief sculptures. Amazingly, when the palace used to be rediscovered twenty-five centuries later in 1847, the sculpture in the throne room areas remained in large part intact. But these days, air pollution, animal damage, vandalism, neglect, and – worst of all – looting for the international antiquities market by Iraq’s own sanctions-striken people, have brought ruin to the palace. The splendour of Sennacherib’s palace now survives only on this irreplaceable book. Art historian and archaeologist John Malcolm Russell, who in 1989 set about creating the only extensive photographic record of the palace architecture, sculptures, and inscriptions ever made, has preserved in pictures much that has since been lost. This book isn’t just a huge contribution to the understanding of Assyrian palatial art and architecture, additionally it is the important thing to safeguarding the treasures of Sennacherib’s palace and other ancient sites, for Russell proposes standards in archaeological excavation, documentation, and public policy so that you can assist preserve cultural artifacts in an unstable world.

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