Sennacherib

Biography

Sennacherib made Nineveh capital, the walls, the aqueduct, the library that preserved Gilgamesh for us, grandson Ashurbanipal's collection. The 701 BC Levant campaign, Hezekiah Jerusalem siege, the Taylor Prism, the Bible's angel of the Lord, 185,000 dead, Josephus plague hint. Babylon destroyed 689, the waters diverted over it, unforgivable to Babylonians. His sons killed him in the temple of Nisroch, the Nabi Yunus mosque now atop the palace.