This region was also mentioned a number of times in the Bible, and today, only ruins and remains are left from that era. One of these ruins is Tel Lachish, a biblical site that is located right ...

Assyrian King Sennacherib conquered the Judean city of Lachish in one of the most documented battles of ancient history, as described in the Bible, in Assyrian records and even in artwork that has ...

Here’s how it works. Tel Lachish National Park is home to the gate structure, on the left, with its six rooms split by the city street. [Read the Story About the Recent Excavation.] During the ...

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says.

The settlement is mentioned in both the Bible and in various Egyptian sources and was one of the few Canaanite cities to survive into the 12th century BCE. Aerial view of Tel Lachish / Courtesy of ...

Lachish was the second-most-important city in ... one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs. READ MORE: Bible bombshell: Secret 'time capsule' found in Jesus statue during restoration revealed ...

An expedition will be sent to Palestine to excavate the city of Lachish, where the prophet Isaiah was believed to have prayed that the city be saved from the Assyrians, following which 18,000 ...

WHEN SENNACHERIB, King of Assyria, sent his army to the kingdom of Judah in 701BC, and had it destroy the city of Lachish ... of earlier invasions, in the Bible and other texts, are thought ...