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This imperial ideology becomes a powerful survival mechanism in the hands of the Assyrians. Of course, the Neo-Assyrian empire ended in a cataclysmic event in 612 B.C.. This should not , however, be ...

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

(Margot Stout Whiting, Assyria 1995 - The Glory and Fall of the Assyrian Empire) "Thus, the Assyrian king, in perpetrating actions - sometimes including atrocities - which put the enemy into panic, ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire population of the world three thousand years ago was only about 50 million ...

In the lead-up to the 110th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Parramatta City Council officially recognised the Ottoman ...

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 ...