Lachish Reliefs
c. 700-692 BC · Resource
Carved alabaster panels from Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh depicting the Assyrian siege and capture of the Judaean city of Lachish in 701 BC. A landmark of Assyrian war propaganda.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 696 BCE
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Homer's Iliad composed (750 BCE)
- Homer's Odyssey composed (700 BCE)
- Spring and Autumn period (771 BCE)
- Founding of Rome (traditional) (753 BCE)
- Iliad and Odyssey composed (750 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BCE)
- Western Zhou collapse / move east (771 BCE)
- Fall of Samaria (722 BCE)