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 ...

The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Moreover, they are the descendants of the ancient Assyrians- builders of the earliest civilization.

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery ... (883-859 B.C.), ruler of the empire of Assyria, centered in what is now northern Iraq. Move through the timeline below to get a better ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...