In his new book, Eckart Frahm describes the rise of Assyria from a peaceful city-state to a combative imperial power.

(Margot Stout Whiting, Assyria 1995 - The Glory and Fall of the Assyrian Empire) "Thus, the Assyrian king, in perpetrating actions - sometimes including atrocities - which put the enemy into panic, ...

The Assyrian Empire was a complex Mesopotamian civilisation dating from 2,500 BC to around 600 BC. Mesopotamia, an area of ancient Asia, was where people first gathered in large cities, created ...

The Assyrian National Council, in partnership with the Assyrian Youth group, organised this year’s Assyria Day, an initiative ...

‘Assyria’ Review: A Mesopotamian Empire’s Might Assyrians served as villains in the Bible and heroes to modern Romantics like Byron. Their true history was lengthy and complex .

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says. At the ...

The Lachish relief depicts the Assyrian army laying siege in 701 BC to the town of Lachish, about 40 kilometres from Jerusalem. Soldiers storm the town walls while prisoners are marched out of the ...

Assyrian Discoveries: an Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the site of Ninevah, during 1873 and 1874. By George Smith, of the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum.

Over more than seven centuries, from approximately 1350 BC to 600 BC, the Assyrian Empire established political dominance and cultural influence that extended across numerous settlements in the ...