The 1904 caption for this image reads: “Bird's eye view of Sargon's Palace at Dur-Sharrukin drawn by Boudier from the restoration by Thomas in place.” Sargon's palace ( Dur Sharrukin) is an immediate predecessor of Sennasherib's Palace, with its Hanging Gardens, at Nineveh, to the south west of Khorsabad. The outer wall of the Sargon's fortress covered an area of three square kilometres and had seven fortified gates. Sargon II, (died 705 BCE), one of Assyria’s great kings (reigned 721–705 BCE) during the last century of its history. He extended and consolidated the conquests of his presumed father, Tiglath-pileser III.
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The 1904 caption for this image reads: “Bird's eye view of Sargon's Palace at Dur-Sharrukin drawn by Boudier from the restoration by Thomas in place.” Sargon's palace ( Dur Sharrukin) is an immediate predecessor of Sennasherib's Palace, with its Hanging Gardens, at Nineveh, to the south west of Khorsabad. The outer wall of the Sargon's fortress covered an area of three square kilometres and had seven fortified gates. Sargon II, (died 705 BCE), one of Assyria’s great kings (reigned 721–705 BCE) during the last century of its history. He extended and consolidated the conquests of his presumed father, Tiglath-pileser III.

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