In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

Across the rest of the Assyrian Empire, Esarhaddon emphasized his family lineage, but within Babylon, he was the king chosen by the gods. Moreover, he stated that the demolition of Babylon was ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac Orthodox Church ("Jacobite"), established in 450 A.D.; 3) the Chaldean Church ...

By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

focusing on the ways the empires tried to govern the countryside and the responses of the rural population to these attempts. Keywords: Migration, Social history, Judah, Babylonia, Judeans, Hebrew ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

In the heart of the Empire "Aramaic dockets" were attached to the ... During their exile years in Babylon the Jews adopted the Square Assyrian script which was commonly known to them as Ketav Ashuri ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated over 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities on each one of those days The modern Syriac people ...

The Akitu Festival was celebrated on 12 consecutive days during the Assyrian-Babylonian empires period with different rituals and activities on each one of those days The modern Syriac people have ...