Image: Judaean people are being deported into exile after the capture of Lachish

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Description: After the sack of Lachish, the Judaean prisoners were deported into exile within other parts of the Assyrian empire. People took their belongings and whatever animals they could. This relief depicts a man, 2 women, and 2 (male and female) children being deported with their household belongings. Wall relief from the South-West Palace at Nineveh (modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq), Mesopotamia. Neo-Assyrian period, 700-692 BCE. The British Museum, London.
Title: Judaean people are being deported into exile after the capture of Lachish
Credit: Own work
Author: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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