On May 12, Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq loaded the Maryam Khatoon Mosque with TNT and obliterated the Ottoman-era heritage site out of existence. Despite the long list of atrocities ...
Ashurbanipal, last major ruler of the Assyrian Empire, depicted in the royal lion hunt bas-reliefs (c. 645 B.C.) that were ripped from the walls of the North Palace at Nineveh during the excavations ...
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This ancient superpower was the largest empire of its ...
Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BCE, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...
https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.2.4.0298 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.2.4.0298 Copy URL The incorporation of urban communities ...
The King as a Nodal Point of Neo-Assyrian identity, edited by Johannes Bach & Sebastian Fink was published in 2022. The aim of the book is to fill in some gaps by focusing on the pivotal role of the ...
King Ashurbanipal of Assyria. On a 2,700-year-old clay tablet, the astrologer and priest Akkulanu wrote to the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal about the years of drought they had suffered: “As for the ...
New York: Basic Hachette, 2024. Pp. xx, 508+. Illus., maps, table, notes, index. $22.99 paper. ISBN: 1541605152 The Bad Boys of the Old Testament. Most of us are familiar with the later Assyrians as ...
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