Khorsabad Annals

The Khorsabad Annals are royal Assyrian inscriptions from the reign of Sargon II, discovered at his capital of Dur-Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq). They describe his military campaigns, including the conquest of Samaria, capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel, around −722 to −720.

Sargon claims to have deported 27,290 inhabitants of Samaria and incorporated the territory into the Assyrian Empire. This account corresponds broadly with the events described in 2 Kings 17, although the conquest began under his predecessor, Shalmaneser V.

The inscriptions provide independent evidence of the fall of the northern kingdom and the Assyrian deportations associated with the history of the Ten Lost Tribes.