Israel’s Land Of Exile

In color pictures

The Bible tells us in 2 Kings 17:6, “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.”

Links to websites with illustrated materials relating to the land of exile of the House of Israel in Mesopotamia:

Color slide-show of the ruins of Sargon’s capital city at Khorsabad (Dur-Sharrukin):

http://oi.uchicago.edu/gallery/asp_meso_khorsabad/

The throne room of the Northwest Palace at Nimrud was reconstructed in a drawing by Henry Layard:

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/anesite/html/el_ane_vr.htm

Three-dimensional color renderings of the Northwest Palace at Nimrud:

http://www.learningsites.com/NWPalace/NWP_renders_index.html

The British Museum Palaces of Mesopotamia exhibit:

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/palaces/home_set.html