Assyrians have lived in South-Eastern Anatolia, Northern Iraq, Eastern Syria and Western Iran since times of antiquity. Living beneath the shadow of poplar and mulberry trees, and amid crimson poppies ...

A relief-drawing from the Palace of Sennacherib, Nimroud, Nineveh. (Wikimedia Commons TYalaA CC BY-SA 4.0) The first mention of Assyria by ancient Greeks was in the middle of the 7th century BC, ...

Back then, turtles were not a regular meal in Mesopotamia. Turtle bones, however, were thought to ward off evil. The abundance of R. euphraticus turtles, a notoriously aggressive species, in this ...

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 ...

Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor. Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are ...

This meticulous and moving book was originally published in France in 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian and Assyrian genocides—what Assyrians call “the Year of the Sword” (Seyfo). The ...

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"First in a series ... on the Economy of Ancient Mesopotamia ... in the framework of a special 'Middle Eastern Studies Programme' (MOS Programme)"--Preface. Wir müssen unsere Nische nutzen : Monies, ...