TheAssyriansof today are thedescendantsof the ancient Assyrian people, one of the earliest civilizations emerging in the Middle East, and have a history spanning over 6760 years. Assyrians are not Arabian or Arabs, we are not Kurdish, our religion is not Islam. The Assyrians are Christian, ...
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Everyday people lived in homes that were built using brick and had multiple stories stacked on top of each other. Rooms of the house surrounded a central courtyard that provided light and air to the inside of the home. The flat roofs, accessed by stairs, were also used as working and sl...
Map of Assyria 1392 CC - 934 BC This map shows the extent of the Assyrian Empire when King Ashur-dan II came to the throne. He began the process of greatly extending the Empire. Photo: Nel Weggelaar and Jan Kort, Amsterdam, repositorio.uca.edu.ar/bitstream/123456789/16108/1/assyrian-...
The Assyrians were not a particularly peaceful people, but instead were characterized by the cruel, aggressive, and dominant; but it is possible that they were obligated to adopt this conduct in order to survive, as the history of Assyria during the greater part of the second millennium B.C...
Neo-Assyrians spoke Aramaic, which was initially used by far fewer people. However, as the power and reach of the Neo-Assyrian Empire spread, Aramaic eventually became the most common international language of the region, just as Arabic became the land's most common tongue in following eras....
The Assyrians are a people who have lived in the Middle East since ancient times and today can be found all over the world. They are well known for their vast ancient empire; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and...
In the process of imperial conquest, the Assyrian state incorporated previously foreign territories and people into their world. Landscapes, materials, and the labor of conquered bodies became a part of the Assyrian royal palaces of northern Iraq, both as elements of their constru...
The contemporary Assyrian textual record yields a broad variety of data that range from placenames to the role of distinct cities within the realm, from patterns of tax collection to border wars, thedigging of canals to the movement of dislocated people. However, in order to evaluate these ...