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English: While Jerusalem was not destroyed by Sennacherib's forces during his invasion of 701 BCE, the important Judean city of Lachish was violently conquered and its residents killed or deported. The importance of this victory for Sennacherib can be seen by the fact that he had it depicted in detail in stone relief panels set up in his palace in Nineveh. These panels were later discovered by Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1846. The archaeological record at Lachish also testifies to the wide scale destruction, as thousands of weapons and a massive grave of 1,500 people date to this time period. The Lachish reliefs are valuable resources for military historians, and provide pictures of what Judeans and Assyrians looked like. Most of the reliefs now reside in the British Museum in London.