By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac Orthodox Church ("Jacobite"), established in 450 A.D.; 3) the Chaldean Church ...

The team found three separate Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets in ... Open the Youtube video The Assyrian Empire was ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian ...

write the first true history of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire and publish pathbreaking translations of the major Babylonian literary texts. All that from a self-taught laborer who had ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated over 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities on each one of those days The modern Syriac people ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated on 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities on each one of those days The modern Syriac people have ...

during their celebration of "Akitu", the Assyrian-Babylonian New Year. The attack resulted in two people being seriously injured and disrupted what was meant to be a peaceful and joyful religious ...

Keywords: Babylonia, Akkadian, Achaemenid period ... Jones (Ph.D, Columbia University) is a historian of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. His dissertation, titled “Power and Elite Competition in the ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...