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 ...

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History is full of myths people believe that are not actually true ... The ingenuity behind this technology helped the Assyrian Empire maintain its military dominance and expand its territories ...

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 ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...

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 ...

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 ...