The Expanded Assyrian Conference in Sweden In light of the complicated political circumstances which are intertwining in general on the land of Iraq and negatively reflecting on the Assyrian people in ...
The Assyrian Nahla Valley in north Iraq. (AINA) -- Local Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq have pursued a quiet but systematic policy of granting Iraqi citizenship and residency rights to large ...
Introduction -- 1. The land of Assyria -- setting the scene -- 2. Major palaces on the citadel -- 3. Tombs, wells and riches -- 4. Temples, minor palaces and private houses --5. Fort Shalmaneser: the ...
In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...
Wall relief panel depicting an “urmahlilu” (Lion-Man) (645-640 BCE), a protective spirit, North Palace, Nineveh, in the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria (unless noted otherwise, ...
Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...