Places tagged “sennacherib”

🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works

Nimrud Dam

Neo-Assyrian Empire 879-612 BCE · Assyrian Neo-Assyrian imperial engineers

879 BCE Assyrian Tigris weir dam (200 m) at Nimrud with 5 gated sluices feeding Sennacherib's canal cascade to Nineveh.

🇵🇸 Palestine · Hydraulic works

Hezekiah's Tunnel (Siloam Tunnel) and Siloam Pool

Iron Age II (Judahite Kingdom, late 8th c. BCE) · Judahite Israelite (Hezekian Jerusalem)

Biblical 533-m S-tunnel 701 BCE two teams meet with 90 cm offset for Assyrian siege.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works

Jerwan Aqueduct of Sennacherib

Neo-Assyrian (Sargonid) · Assyrian Imperial (Nineveh hydraulic corps)

Neo-Assyrian 280-m aqueduct bridge 705 BCE carrying Khosr Canal to Nineveh, largest pre-Roman.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works

Sennacherib's Canal System & Jerwan Aqueduct

Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire (705–681 BCE Sennacherib) · Neo-Assyrian imperial engineers under Sennacherib

690 BCE Assyrian 300-m stone arch aqueduct—world's oldest bridge-aqueduct carrying Nineveh's 80-km canal.

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Early Bronze through Iron Age and Byzantine (c.3500 BCE–600 CE); LB–Iron I–II Judahite fortress 8th–6th c. BCE · EBA–LB Canaanite → Judahite fortress (Hezekiah–Zedekiah) → Babylonian destruction → Persian–Byzantine

Judahite Shfela fortress (18 ha) with Sennacherib 701 BCE and 588 BCE Babylonian destructions — Lachish letter Azekah (Iron II).

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Nineveh

Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian

Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).