(H.W.F. Saggs, Everyday Life In Babylonia and Assyria, p.99) "Most authors of the time have described the scenes of horror by the allied armies [Medes and allies] during their control of the Assyrian ...

Babylonia’s population collapsed and Assyria’s record-keeping seems to have stopped in the mid-1100s B.C., but their “Neo-Babylonian” and “Neo-Assyrian” successor empires retained ...