This comparative study not only bridges two ancient military traditions but also calls into question long-standing historical ...

In the second calendar year of the third millennium of our Common Era, that is in 2001, our world witnessed two acts of ...

Places with incredible-sounding names such as Babylon, Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent and Assyria formed a glorious ... as a student of the natural sciences, geography and geology were my ...

bear inscriptions and architectural motifs that reflect both Assyrian and Parthian iconography. According to the UNESCO submission, “the Amedi Gate and its engravings represent ancient beliefs and ...

Playwright Atra Asdou's semiautobiographical dark comedy about the relationship between Assyrian women and their mothers premieres at Lookingglass Theatre Company. Former Niles resident and Maine ...

In 1845, an Englishman named Austen Henry Layard set out from Constantinople in search of Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian Empire. He was 28 years old, held no formal training in ...

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Assyrian-speaking Australians.

The ancient city is considered to be one of the most important parts of North Mesopotamia, becoming the capital of the Assyrian empire in the late eighth century BC under King Sennacherib.

And so, when India’s water minister recently thundered that “not a drop of water” would flow to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty, it made for rhetoric and bluster as geography disagreed.

Exterior of the nameless tomb at Luxor. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt In the 1970s, a tomb was discovered in the Al-Asasif necropolis on the west bank of Luxor, Egypt, which ...