Sargon II was unexpectedly killed in battle, and after his death, his son and successor relocated the capital from Dur-Sharrukin to the settlement of Nineveh shortly afterwards. In the 1800s ...
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Abandoned Assyrian capital brought to life in new magnetic surveyA round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...
Sargon Petyou is visiting Australia from Denmark where he lived there since 1991. He has been active since his arrival. He was the president of the Nineveh association and member of the committee ...
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