Word: sennacherib
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...than a year an expedition headed by Dr. J. L. Starkey of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve scraps...
...James Henry Breasted, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, foremost U. S. archeologist. Now 68, he has twelve lieutenants at work all over the Near East. Last year he visited them by airplane, brought back news of a great aqueduct built by Sennacherib (TIME, Jan. 1). Last month he went to Manhattan to receive from the hands of a special messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns of marks resembling quail tracks. To learned...
Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found...
...addressed the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, in Augusta, Ga., and harangued financial bigwigs thus: "Great disasters of history have not been caused by the weak. They have been caused by the misuse of power on the part of the strong. Page Pharaoh, page Nebuchadnezzar,* and Sennacherib,† page Nero and Napoleon! Or consider our own country today...
...Sennacherib, King of Assyria...