But ancient Assyrian inscriptions tell a different story, claiming that Hezekiah, the king of Judah, paid a large amount of ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh ... including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham ...

At the British Museum, the world’s pre-eminent repository ... of inscribed clay tablets in the royal library of the Assyrian king Sennacherib at Nineveh. Layard, Rassam and other researchers ...

British Museum, London Photograph by Erich Lessing ... More intriguingly still, a depiction of that Assyrian king found on a bas relief in Nineveh shows leafy gardens watered by an aqueduct.

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For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... many originated from Nineveh’s library, built by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the seventh century ...

The British Museum is both an architectural beauty and a trove of some of the world's most noted antiquities. In fact, many travelers say it's the best museum in all of London. What's more ...