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It was from Assyria, known as Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates) that the first civilization began, and gave rise to an intellectual thought process that helped build scientific as well as ...

Visualizing the greatest metropolis in the ancient world requires the full powers of imagination. This is partly due to simple geology. The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have ...

A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to erase it. Priceless artifacts from the Assyrian Empire were destroyed during the Isis occupation of ...

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 ...

Tania Nissan is the coordinator and facilitator for the French-Assyrian documentary Return to Babylon, which will be screened at Hoyts Cinema in Wetherill Park. She spoke to SBS Assyrian about the ...

Archaeologists search for Assyrian artifacts that survived the Isis occupation of Mosul. A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to erase it.