April 24 was chosen specifically since this was the day when on April 24, 1915, approximately 250 prominent Armenian ...

Despite its hostile geography, rebellious vassals, and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians managed to survive and thrive. Against more powerful enemies like Assyria, the ...

Between 1915 and 1918 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1,000,000 Greeks and 1,500,000 Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks and Kurds in a genocide that aimed at and nearly succeeded in destroying the ...

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

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

Discover the history behind many of the world's oldest dessert recipes and how you can make them at home today.

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 ...

Parramatta City Council has unanimously passed a motion recognizing the 1915–1923 Ottoman Empire genocides against Armenians, ...

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

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...