"Go Tell the Assyrians, Thou Who Passest By, That Here, Obedient to Their Laws, We Lie..."

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Fabrice De Backer

This paper deals with a topic hardly studied by our fellow scholars: the management of casualties during the aftermath of a victorious battle for the Neo-Assyrians. The paper will propose a typology of casualties according to different points of their different kinds of status, plus some questions on some problems still encountered by modern soldiers nowadays.

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Neo-Assyrian, Combat, Warfare, War, Casualties, Dead, Soldiers, V. I. P., Officer, Bodies, Mass Grave, Pyre, Mummies, Burials, Limbs, Niniveh, Ashdod, Kalhu, Hassanlu, Pitch Battles, Sieges

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Backer, Fabrice De. «“Go Tell the Assyrians, Thou Who Passest By, That Here, Obedient to Their Laws, We Lie. ”». Historiae, 2020, núm. 17, p. 25-91, https://raco.cat/index.php/Historiae/article/view/375798.
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