The Daleks Of Ancient Mesopotamia

Assyrian art of the siege

Assyrian siege relief at the British Museum (link)

Chronology is a bit soft, but in 877 or 876 BC Assyria came to blows with the city of Bit Adini, which had sided with another city against the Assyrians. Assur conceived the entire world as a place that owed submission and tribute to the gods, so anyone who went against their order of the world was going…