A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

Despite its hostile geography, rebellious vassals, and the constant pressure from the Assyrian Empire, the Urartians managed to survive and thrive. Against more powerful enemies like Assyria, the ...

Between 1915 and 1918 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1,000,000 Greeks and 1,500,000 Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks and Kurds in a genocide that aimed at and nearly succeeded in destroying the ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

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 ...

The full motion introduced by Clr Raffoul read: That Council recognises the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians, and over 1 million Assyrian and Greek peoples by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923 ...

In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...

Here are 10. Baklava predates the countries of both Turkey and Greece, with the earliest known traces of Baklava back in 800 B.C., during the Assyrian Empire. Today, that honey-sweet phyllo treat ...

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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, the ...