1765 B.C. (2985) The great code of Hammurabi is produced in Babylon. 1365 B.C. (3385) Ashuruballit lays the foundations of the first Assyrian empire. 1307 B.C. (3443) Adad-narari establishes the first ...

and traces the history of today's Assyrians from the period of fall of the Assyrian Empire until the end of the Ottoman Empire. It took almost three years to produce, involving more than fifty ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Today, the Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire and one of the earliest ...

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In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College ... temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ruler of the empire of Assyria, centered in what is now northern ...

Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire population of the world three thousand years ago was only about 50 million ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh ... At this time the Assyrians had carved an empire that stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf but this empire ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire ... Bell imagined “the history of Asia . . . spread out before me.