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Hunting the Lions: A Dead King, and a Collapsing Assyrian Empire – Part I
The fall of Assyria was with a whimper and in no way ended with a bang. Instead, it ended in a slow, agonizing death. Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great king, ascended the throne only to inherit a storm forming on the horizon. From the time he...
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