an ancient Indo-European people whom the Assyrians came into contact with through both war and cultural exchanges between the 15th and 13th centuries BC." The Hittites used spoked wheels on their ...

As a final example of ancient standards, Menahem, on capturing a certain district ... Another author, the Assyrian Amir Menshey, reassures us that during the final wars a portion of the Assyrian army ...

[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] A king of ancient Assyria was relaxing with his queen in what's believed to be the queen's garden under the cool canopy of grape vines.

Abandoned Saddam Palace in north Iraq, left unfinished after the Gulf war. Such palaces were built partially with stones from nearby Assyrian churches and villages. Modern Chaldean-Assyrian church in ...

Among them, Assyrian "King of the Universe" Ninurta ... resource will build over time via the number of wars you're engaged in. As Ancient Legacies go, few are quite so rad as Sargon of Akkad.

DR. THOMPSON'S brilliant monograph on ancient Assyrian chemistry is worthy of very careful study. To appreciate it fully one must be both an Assyrio-logist and a chemist, but even those who ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Israel might corroborate a dramatic biblical account, potentially shedding light on the ...

The Assyrians, like the Chaldeans, have an ancient liturgy named after Saints ... so tossed by storms (genocide during the First World War, a massacre in 1933 that sent the Patriarch as a refugee ...

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Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire population of the world three thousand years ago was only about 50 million ...