In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul, but after the death of its founder the city lost ...

We know now that the empire did fight many wars ... was not limited to the king but also to the government, so that the Assyrian government portrayed itself or was pictured as the symbol of the ...

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

The Assyrian empire, which stretched across swathes of ... "The fact that [the idea] works for both the five-symbol sequence and the three-symbol sequence, and that the symbols can also be ...

This is an exerpt from the book Assyrian Massacres in Ottoman ... In the eyes of all the peoples of the Empire, even in the eyes of the Turkish people, Sultan Abdul Hamid was an odious person, the ...