The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
Assyrians have used two languages throughout their history: ancient Assyrian (Akkadian), and Modern Assyrian (neo-syriac). Akkadian was written with the cuneiform writing system, on clay tablets, and ...
As of early 2026, several countries and international bodies have formally recognised the Assyrian genocide (also known as Seyfo). Because the Assyrian massacres occurred alongside the Armenian and ...
On an otherwise quiet day in a small village in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, visitors encircle a small plot almost indistinguishable from the dust-brown earth around it, solemn ...
New York: Basic Hachette, 2024. Pp. xx, 508+. Illus., maps, table, notes, index. $22.99 paper. ISBN: 1541605152 The Bad Boys of the Old Testament. Most of us are familiar with the later Assyrians as ...
They came before dawn, under the cover of darkness. Overpowering and killing three village guards, they took hundreds of captives — men, women and children, from the elderly to the very young. Then ...
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