[Avoiding_Sulla]

"One of those topics."

So this is "about mid-eighth Century B.C."

IIRC -- verify please -- Dr. V did suggest a massive earthquake would explain how the Assyrians suddenly disappeared literally overnight at the height of their long siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC? All around the city wall but not the city itself is hard to (no pun intended at first) for a man to swallow.

[SunkenCiv]

Dr. V did suggest a massive earthquake would explain how the Assyrians suddenly disappeared literally overnight at the height of their long siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC?

Hmm, not that I'm aware. He discusses the overnight destruction of Sennacherib's army in WiC.

• Sennacherib: the Year - 701
• The Siloam Aqueduct
• The Later Campaigns of Sennacherib
• Sennacherib’s Last Campaign
• Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History