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Important city Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta hidden in Mesopotamian geography

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    by Damien F. Mackey   “Modern historians judge that Tukulti-Ninurta’s sacking of Babylon with the carrying off of Marduk’s statue must have been considered sacrilegious by many Assyrians”. W. G. Lambert   “ Turning Babylon into a lake – covering the civilized land with water, returning the city of Marduk to the primordial chaos – was an insult to the god. Sennacherib compounded this by ordering the statue of Marduk hauled back to Assyria”.   Susan Wise Bauer     I, having initially followed an intriguing suggestion of Phillip Clapham’s identifying the assassinated Tukulti-Ninurta I with the assassinated Sennacherib, wrote:   And there have been other attempts as well to bring order to Mesopotamian history and chronology; for example, Phillip Clapham’s attempt to identify the C13th Assyrian king, Tukulti-Ninurta I, with the C8th BC king, Sennacherib . …. Clapham soon decided that, despite some initially pro...
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Chaotic King Lists can conceal some sure historical sequences

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    by   Damien F. Mackey   Just as the Book of Tobit, of a man who served as a high official during the Neo-Assyrian era, enables for us to know the true sequence of three of the Assyrian kings, so, thankfully, does the Book of Daniel provide us with exact knowledge of a succession of three later kings, two being Chaldeans and one a Medo-Persian: Nebuchednezzar; Belshazzar; Darius the Mede.     So-called ‘Middle’ Assyrian and ‘Middle’ Babylonian rulers will be found to re-emerge during Neo Assyrian and Neo Babylonian (or Chaldean) times, where they properly belong.   In other words, the phantom ‘Middle’ era needs to be folded into the Neo era.   I have demonstrated this necessity in detail in various articles now, including the sequence of three C12th BC Shutrukid (Elamite) kings turning up again during the reign of king Sennacherib of Assyria, C8th BC.   On this, see e.g. Volume One, p. 181 of my 20...
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