The expansion of Ancient Greeks into Assyria between the 9th and the 7th centuries BC occurred through mercenary warfare and ...
Israel’s antiquities authority reports discovery of an Assyrian inscription from the first temple period - evidence of an ...
A newfound pottery sherd has cuneiform text from the Assyrian Empire asking the Kingdom of Judah about a late tribute payment ...
"The inscription provides direct evidence of official correspondence between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah," ...
Assyria stands out in history as the fountainhead of empire. It was perhaps the first state to subdue the bulk of its world, extending in every direction until its frontiers consisted almost entirely ...
The Assyrians, an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East, are a threatened minority today. Within the last two centuries ...
In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...
Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered in ...
The 'extremely rare' inscription could be proof of a Biblical tax revolt from the First Temple, the Israel Antiquities ...
In his new book "Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire" (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BC to 609 BC) ...
In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...