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Siege of Lachish 701 BC

Siege of Lachish: Assyrian siege-engine attacking the city wall of Lachish, part of the ascending assaulting wave. Detail of a wall relief dating back to the reign of Sennacherib, 700-692 BCE. From Nineveh, Iraq, currently housed in the British Museum
Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.

Key facts

Year701 BCWikidata P585 (point in time)
EraAncient (before 500)derived from year
LocationIsraelNatural Earth (modern borders)
ContinentAsiaNatural Earth
War / conflictSennacheribWikidata P361
Coordinates31.5653, 34.8492Wikidata P625

About the battle

The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BC. The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Siege of Lachish (revision 1370742732), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; formatting and citations removed. No text added.

Location

31.5653, 34.8492 · Israel

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