The Discovery of the Black Obelisk

Archaeology in the Area of Ancient Assyria

Paul Emile Botta

Austen Henry Layard

The Jehu Relief

World Empires and Assyria

Assyrian & Bible Timeline

Shalmaneser III and Assyria

Ancient Calah

King Jehu and Israel

Text on the Black Obelisk

Biblical History

Assyrian History

Kings of Israel and Judah

List of Assyrian Kings

Chart of Hebrew Prophets

Map of Ancient Assyria

Map of Modern Iraq
 

The Black Obelisk

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
Discovered at Calah
Now in the British Museum

"He will raise a signal for a nation from afar off, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth; and lo, swiftly, speedily it comes."
Isaiah 5:26