The Destruction of Sennacherib (idea) by Whywait?
Wed Sep 06 2000 at 14:19:23 With this poem Lord Byron departed, as the Romantic poets had wont, from literary tradition. Whilst depicting a biblical event, The Destruction of Sennacherib was penned after one of the century's first archaeologists, young British adventurer Austen Henry Layard, explored the ruins of Nineveh in 1847 and rediscovered the lost palace of Sennacherib across the Tigris River from modern Mosul in northern Iraq. Layard's find corroborated an event that went unrecorded save for its (rather fantastic and supernatural) depiction in the Bible. Romantic lore has it that...
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