What The Assyrian Kings Did to Captive Princesses Was Worse Than You Think

What The Assyrian Kings Did to Captive Princesses Was Worse Than You Think — a chilling investigative history documentary revealing how the Neo-Assyrian state systemized the capture, ritual “reconditioning,” and erasure of foreign royal women. Through newly translated clay tablets, sealed palace archives from Nimrud and Nineveh, and archaeological findings, this film reconstructs the hidden rites — the Stripping of Names, the Chamber of the Red Cloth, and the Ritual of Forgetting — used to break identity and reshape political loyalty.

In this episode we explore:

The political logic behind taking princesses alive (Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal).

Newly uncovered tablets and fragments documenting “royal reconditioning” rites.

Subterranean palace architecture (sealed chambers, rings of red bronze) and its ritual uses.

First-hand scribal notes, eunuch testimony, and archaeological evidence from Nimrud, Nineveh, and the Northwest Palace.

How identity, names, and memory were weaponized by empire — and how traces of resistance survived in the dust.

If you’re fascinated by Assyrian history, Ancient Near East archaeology, women’s history, and the dark mechanisms of imperial power, this investigation will change how you see the palaces and annals of the Neo-Assyrian kings.

🔎 Sources & Further Reading (recommended search terms): Neo-Assyrian tablets, Nimrud sealed chamber, “Tablets of the Royal Reconditioning Rite”, Sennacherib palace archives, Assyrian “ritual of forgetting”, eunuch administration Assyria.

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Credits & Sound
Music: “Thunderbird” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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