Bronze band from the Palace Gates of Shalmaneser III in the British Museum. The scenes show in the upper tier the king receiving tribute from Tyre and Sidon in Lebanon and in the lower tier the conquest of the town of Hazuzu in Syria.

Paul-Émile Botta

Paul-Émile Botta (born Dec. 6, 1802, Turin, Piedmont [Italy]—died March 29, 1870, Achères, France) was a French consul and archaeologist whose momentous discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, in 1843, initiated the large-scale […]