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Length print 65 pages audible not available as an audiobook

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Sadly though there are far too few photographic reproductions of the antiquities themselves which may all have been recently destroyed by radical terrorists in the area

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Unfortunately it does not include any of the excellent black and white photographs

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The events are related in the cuneiform inscriptions that commemorate esarhaddon’s coronation

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The soldiers the rebels who had fomented the plot to seize the rulership of assyria for my brothers their ranks i examined to the last man and i laid a heavy penalty upon them i destroyed their seed

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Perhaps desiring a greater legacy than his father esarhaddon expanded what must have been an already immense royal palace

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The texts do not state specifically if it was the southwest or north palace that esarhaddon remodeled but a number of details are related

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The text readsat that time the older palace which stood in nineveh which the kings who went before me my fathers had built for the care of the camp the sheltering of the cavalry horses mules chariots arms battle equipment and enemy plunder of all sorts whichassur king of the gods granted me as my royal portion – that place had come to seem too small to me for the exercising of horses and the maneuvering of chariots