Context: when there was an Assyrian civil war between Ashurbanipal and his brother the Elamites backed his brother who lost. Ashurbanipal didn’t take it well and went buck wild on the Elamites.
After being known for his violence Ashurbanipal was also known for a love of reading.
Imagine being an Elamite and realizing the guy coming to flay your nobles is doing it specifically to de-stress after a long day of reading The Epic of Gilgamesh in original Sumerian.
RandomNightLord8 on
Night Lords? Here? Excellent.
Uundamil on
And with the ensuing power vacuum the Medes and Persians step onto the scene.
Dominarion on
Is it when the Assyrians draped the walls of the city of Susa with the skins of the people they flayed?
Glittering-Age-9549 on
Don’t understimate the Elamites. They were almost as ancient as the Sumerians, and survived long enoug to almost see the end of the Roman Empire (well, the western part, anyways…).
Boring-Mushroom-6374 on
Reminds me of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt. They poked the bear and not only got invaded by Assyria, an Assyria led by Esarhaddon.
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Context: when there was an Assyrian civil war between Ashurbanipal and his brother the Elamites backed his brother who lost. Ashurbanipal didn’t take it well and went buck wild on the Elamites.
After being known for his violence Ashurbanipal was also known for a love of reading.
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>Woe to the [city of blood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh?wprov=sfla1), full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!
Nahum 3:1
Imagine being an Elamite and realizing the guy coming to flay your nobles is doing it specifically to de-stress after a long day of reading The Epic of Gilgamesh in original Sumerian.
Night Lords? Here? Excellent.
And with the ensuing power vacuum the Medes and Persians step onto the scene.
Is it when the Assyrians draped the walls of the city of Susa with the skins of the people they flayed?
Don’t understimate the Elamites. They were almost as ancient as the Sumerians, and survived long enoug to almost see the end of the Roman Empire (well, the western part, anyways…).
Reminds me of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt. They poked the bear and not only got invaded by Assyria, an Assyria led by Esarhaddon.