The Kurdification of Northern Iraq (Assyria) | Opinion

The Assyrians, an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East, are a threatened minority today. Within the last two centuries ...
AINA

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

Assyria stands out in history as the fountainhead of empire. It was perhaps the first state to subdue the bulk of its world, extending in every direction until its frontiers consisted almost entirely ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Assyria’ Review: A Mesopotamian Empire’s Might

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...
Newsweek

Road Map: Thousands of Ancient Assyrian Tablets Reveal Clues to Locations of Lost Cities

Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered in ...
Yale Environment 360

What felled the great Assyrian Empire? A Yale professor weighs in

The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt — the largest empire of its time — collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, ...
AINA

Assyria: Chronicling the Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

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 BC to 609 BC) ...