A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

The topics are: Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics (Dr. Juha Lahnakoski) Emotions are associated with subjective emotion-specific bodily ...

Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II started building his giant new capital — originally called Dur-Sharrukin, meaning "Fortress of Sargon" — in 713 B.C.

Modern people assign anger most to their hands and upper body, while the Neo-Assyrians described it most in the feet. Love was felt similarly in both modern and Neo-Assyrian maps, with a slight ...

Abstract Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics Emotions are associated with subjective emotion-specific bodily sensations. Here, we utilized ...

Sennacherib was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705 BCE to his own death in 681 BCE. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is one of ...

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.

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historical region that primarily corresponds to the territory of present-day Iraq, as well as parts of Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait.

At the time of their creation, the city was ruled by Sargon II, who ruled over the Assyrian kingdom from 721 to 705 BCE. The king was already middle-aged by the time he took the throne (by force ...

We found that the most significant expansion phase of the Neo-Assyrian state occurred during a two-centuries-long interval of anomalously wet climate, as compared with the previous 4,000 years.