"Newly found Assyrian camp supports epic biblical account" Topic

…The discovery, which is also detailed in Assyrian texts, Greek histories and the Hebrew Bible, could verify the biblical account of 2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37: 36-38 and 2 Chronicles, 32:21…

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Remarkable discovery. I love it when stuff like this happens.

But, IMHO, the Lord wiping out anything in support of the ancient Kingdom of Israel is a pretty preposterous idea – unless he gave up on that kind of thing pretty shortly afterwards.

He certainly wasn't around when the Assyrians removed ancient Israel from the map in 720/722BCE.

Or are his ways simply, ineffable?

It does beg the question, doesn't it.

It doesn't support any biblical account it does however show that Assyrian wall reliefs are very accurate when it comes to depicting sieges.

Definitely a click bait title and it doesn't support the specific story…yet. Seems like the more we learn about Assyrian the more we realize the authors of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament got right.

I think there was some exaggeration going on. ;-) If *that* many soldiers were smote down, there should be a mass grave somewhere nearby…

I think looking for the mass grave is why the research wants archaeologists to excavate the area.
The faith elements of the Bible are separate from the history in researching it. I have always found the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age fascinating. The Bible and the Iliad are full of stories that seem preposterous and I just find it astonishing that more and more of both documents is being found to be potentially accurate. It sparks my curiosity at what could possibly be true that many of us might roll our eyes at.

I suspect the original Biblical story was in reference to a disease sweeping through the besiegers— which wasn't all that unusual.

Just because someone hasn't found a mass grave doesn't mean there's not one. It's not like that mass graves are really all that easy to find. We're still turning up new such sites today, in very unexpected places. After all, this story is about finding something right under the noses of every archeologist and cartographer alive today and working on sites in Israel. It was there all along; they just didn't see it. And that's for a site with actual visible surface features. Mass graves aren't nearly so prominent, and typically are found by accident— construction sites digging up unexpected artifacts, and so forth.

Regarding mass graves,..In the 19th century, AD, the mass graves at Waterloo were dug up and the bones of the fallen ground up for fertilizer. Same happened with Crimean War graves. Makes me wonder if the same happened with ancient battlefield graves and that's why we haven't found many of them.