### q4 despoiling temples was rare in Assyria but did happen > Sennacherib's religious policy is remarkable, though, because after putting down a revolt in Babylon he dug a canal through the city and despoiled the temples, which the Neo-Assyrian kings before and after had always been very careful to respect. His successor Esarhaddon restored the temples of Babylon along with the city and the Babylonian chronicles are a lot more favourable to him than his father. Kind of reminds me of how much Amun was such an outlier in Egyptian history for the whole monotheistic blip. - [[Assyrian imperialism#q4 despoiling temples was rare in Assyria but did happen|View in Vault]]