In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

At the southern end of Assyria the gravel plains give way to alluvium deposited by the Tigris, and farther south there is insufficient rainfall for agriculture without irrigation. These two features ...

The Bible depicts Nebuchadrezzar II and his city as doomed, but to his own people, he restored Babylon to glory. ... In 612 B.C. they sacked Assyria’s then capital Nineveh and toppled their rule.

Dr. J. Hays Ward, editor of the Independent, who conducted the Wolf expedition to Babylon, gave a very interesting account of "Explorations in Babylon and Assyria" yesterday morning before the ...

The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.

The story of ancient Assyria is one of extraordinary longevity and startling evanescence. Assyrian history sprawls out over millennia. As early as the third millennium B.C., a coherent identity ...

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...

Another interesting example is the Babylonian constellation “The Hired Man” which is reimagined in the new texts as a sheep, corresponding to our ‘Aries’ or ‘The Ram.’” The largest and most detailed ...

Emerging from the city-state of Ashur, located in modern-day Iraq, Assyria undertook numerous often-violent military campaigns to spread its rule into Babylonia and other regions; but its kings also ...