4750 B.C. (0) The first temple of Ashur is built. This marks the beginning of the Assyrian calendar. 2500 B.C. (2250) The three great Assyrian cities of Ashur, Arbel and Nineveh are clearly ...

Assyrian Church in North Iraq Bombed by Saddam in 1988. Remains of an Assyrian church in North Iraq, bombed by the Saddam Regime in the late 1980's. Assyrian girl watches as villagers work on ...

St Peter himself spoke Aramaic. Most old churches in the Middle East have been brought close to ruin by wars, and none has suffered more than the Assyrian Church of the East, which claims St Isaac ...

His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia in an interview with SBS Assyrian, delivered some messages about the COVID-19 situation and matters that concern the church. He asked worshipers to be patient and ...

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One of those monuments was the 2,800-year-old temple of Nabu, the Mesopotamian god of wisdom and writing. IS fighters wreaked havoc at other sites too, like the once-celebrated Mosul Museum and ...