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The Lachish Relief: A Warning in Stone
Carved on the palace walls of Nineveh, the Lachish Relief depicts a moment of terror and conquest. The people of Judah are shown with short woolly hair and distinctly African features—not the long, flowing strands or European faces often imagined in later art. In the scene, their bodies are impaled on stakes and set before the walls of their own city, a brutal warning to those still inside.
The Assyrian artists were meticulous. They captured the hair, the faces, the very identity of the captives in stone. And what remains is undeniable: these were not Europeanized figures, but the men and women of Judah with African features, preserved for nearly 3,000 years as both victims of empire and witnesses to their true identity.
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