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Elam's king in a 'place of lament'
Assyrian records describe a king of Elam sitting in a place of lament after his country's destruction, and the people of Urartu performing self-effacing mourning rites.
We hear of the defeated only through victors.
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Those Assyrian records survived only because modern scholars dug them up and deciphered them.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 147
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