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 ...

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 ...

Other cities and kingdoms like Assyria, Der, and Urartu are also marked on the map. A near-perfect circular band encloses all these settlements which represent “Bitter Water” or “Bitter ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire Eckart Frahm. Basic, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-1-5416-7440-0 ...

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 ...

One issue was that during the empire's last decades, the Assyrian crown experienced a crisis of legitimacy. It had been precipitated by Ashurbanipal, whose long reign [669-631 BC] marked a cultural ...

Assyria's story is spectacular. It has suffered from the absence of a historian able to bring it to the general public. Thanks to Frahm's masterful effort, there is reason to believe Assyria's story ...