King Esarhaddon ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BCE. He was the third ruler of the Sargonid Dynasty, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

but the Assyrian and Chaldean Syriacs were also targeted by the Ottoman Empire. The Sayfo Massacres, or "Assyrian and Syriac Massacres," are regarded as one of the Middle East's most heinous crimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are 10. Baklava predates the countries of both Turkey and Greece, with the earliest known traces of Baklava back in 800 B.C., during the Assyrian Empire. Today, that honey-sweet phyllo treat ...

Thanks to “Andor,” the Galactic Empire is no longer just an aesthetic or a force of expendable, faceless bad guys to stand behind a cackling evil sorcerer. It is not just a symbol of fascism ...

The festival, which was organized by local authorities and organizations in Ankawa, was also held to commemorate Akitu, the Assyrian-Babylonian New Year and the world’s oldest holiday.