One of the recurring images in the Suzhou Museum exhibition is the lotus flower, which made its way onto the outer border of a carved stone slab that once served as the threshold of Ashurbanipal's ...
Talbot also made a remarkable impact in archaeology, where he played a key role in deciphering ancient cuneiform inscriptions from Nineveh in Iraq, the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian ...
All Christianity is oriental in origin. St Peter himself spoke Aramaic. Most old churches in the Middle East have been brought close to ruin by wars, and none has suffered more than the Assyrian ...
Well, there’s a lot more to the story. At the time, the Assyrian Empire was the bully in the neighborhood, perhaps like the Soviet Union in its heyday. They pioneered the practice of exiling the ...