The culmination of the municipal ideology is the establishment of the empire. Here we see the municipal idealogy taken to its next logical level; it becomes an imperial ideology. Once again, it is an ...

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 ...

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

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

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...