“I swiftly marched to Babylon which I was intent upon conquering. I blew like the onrush of a hurricane and enveloped the city like a fog. I completely surrounded it and captured it by breaching and scaling the walls. I did not spare his mighty warriors, young or old, but filled the city square with their corpses...The city and houses I completely destroyed from foundations to roof and set fire to them. I tore down both inner and outer city walls, temples, temple-towers made of brick and clay - as many as there were - and threw everything into the Arahtu canal. I dug a ditch inside the city and thereby leveled off the earth on its site with water. I destroyed even the outline of its foundations. I flattened it more than any flood could have done. In order that the site of that city and its temples would never be remembered, I devastated it with water so that it became a mere meadow.”

It's the 680's BCE and Sennacharib, the vengeful and vicious king of the Assyrian Empire, has had enough of Babylon's insolence. You may have heard that the "Angel of Death" destroyed the powerful Assyrian army outside the walls of Jerusalem just a few short years ago, but news of their demise has been greatly exaggerated!

We also introduce a new co-host in this episode: Bernie Maopolski of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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