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Ashurbanipal's campaign against Susa is triumphantly recorded in this relief showing the sack of Susa in 647 BC. Here, flames rise from the city as Assyrian soldiers topple it with pickaxes and crowbars and carry off the spoils.
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Based on Wikipedia content that has been reviewed, edited, and republished.
Original image by Zereshk. Uploaded by Jan van der Crabben, published on 26 April 2012 under the following license: GNU Free Documentation License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
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APA Style
Zereshk, . (2012, April 26). Destruction of Susa. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/144/
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Zereshk, . "Destruction of Susa." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 26, 2012. https://www.ancient.eu/image/144/.
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Zereshk, . "Destruction of Susa." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 26 Apr 2012. Web. 25 Nov 2020.
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