During the nearly 300 years of Assyria’s hegemony over the Ancient Near East, the state deported approximately 4.5 million people in 157 documented deportations, exclusive of the number of Assyrians resettled as colonizers in newly-conquered territories and not counting the number people potentially deported in any undocumented deportations. Assyriologist Bustenay Oded underscores the scope and importance of mass deportations in his pioneering, comprehensive, and systematic study of the facts, implementation, and objectives of this practice and the identities of its
During the nearly 300 years of Assyria’s hegemony over the Ancient Near East, the state deported approximately 4.5 million people in 157 documented deportations, exclusive of the number of Assyrians resettled as colonizers in newly-conquered territories and not counting the number people potentially deported in any undocumented deportations. Assyriologist Bustenay Oded underscores the scope and importance of mass deportations in his pioneering, comprehensive, and systematic study of the facts, implementation, and objectives of this practice and the identities of its