Assyria began as a dependency of Babylonia, but it became an independent state in the 14th century B.C.E., some 3,000 years ago, and grew into a major regional power in the historic Middle East.

How three Victorians brought Assyria’s civilization back to life in the 1840s and ’50s is the subject of “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” Joshua Hammer’s epic intellectual adventure. Mr.

The Assyrian flag flutters over the town of Alqosh, 45 kilometers north of Mosul, Iraq, on September 19, 2014. MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images These genocidal campaigns have yet to be globally ...

Excavating in Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital, in what is now Northern Iraq, they discovered 2,700-year-old sculpted marble reliefs depicting the reign of King Sennacherib. Recovery of the ...

While the attacking Assyrian soldiers scaled the ladder leading to the top of a battlement defended by Elamite archers, the Elamites plunged to their deaths, their corpses floating in the moat ...

Inevitably, horses became instruments of war, first pulling archers ensconced in chariots and then as mounts. The earliest known true cavalry formation belonged to the Assyrian king Tukulti ...

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The discovery, which is also detailed in Assyrian texts, Greek histories and the Hebrew Bible, could verify the biblical account of 2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37: 36-38 and 2 Chronicles, 32:21.

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Last year, a team excavating the Assyrian-era gates to the ancient city of Nineveh, on the outskirts of Mosul, found that the stone slabs used as foundations were actually exquisitely carved reliefs; ...

Traditional Assyrian food and entertainment will be on offer at the 5th annual Assyrian Food Festival set for Aug. 19 and 20 in Morton Grove. The event, organized by the Holy Apostolic Catholic Ass… ...