Assyria needs a UU upgrade.
They are the the undisputed badass villains of the early iron age, incredibly over the top “evil” by our modern world view, but far enough removed temporally that we can appreciate what they accomplished and how they did it without having to consider or account for the price paid in human suffering.
No one is going to be offended if you opine that Sargon II “did a lot of good things.”
They are bad guy cool in the way that Darth Vader was cool - before the prequels.
The “beast of the East” as Dan Carlin calls her, deserves better.