[SunkenCiv]

Dr. V did suggest a massive earthquake would explain how the Assyrians suddenly disappeared literally overnight at the height of their long siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC?

Hmm, not that I'm aware. He discusses the overnight destruction of Sennacherib's army in WiC.

• Sennacherib: the Year - 701
• The Siloam Aqueduct
• The Later Campaigns of Sennacherib
• Sennacherib’s Last Campaign
• Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Thanks. From your 4th link:

Then in a single night the Assyrian host, about 185,000 warriors, perished, destroyed by some natural cause.(1)

It's been over 40 years since I read that. Imagination may have filled in the for what would have to be enormous "natural causes."