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 ...

Eckart Frahm’s “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” is a sweeping, delightfully readable effort to remind us of Assyria’s place in history. Grab a Copy.

Captain Assyria, an evil Captain America variant, officially returns with his corrupt Avengers, & that's bad news for the X-Force and all mutantkind.

But Assyria was not invulnerable. In 612BC, Nineveh was sacked in a rebellion led by the Babylonians. They left the world's richest city in ruins, its palaces smouldering, ...

In Assyria, settlements had become large and guarded by fortifications walls, which implies the risk of attack from outside, and hence the need for defense and warfare. First Golden Age: 2400 B.C. to ...

The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.

In Total War: Pharaoh's Dynasties update, multiple new major factions are playable. Among them, Assyrian "King of the Universe" Ninurta-apal-Ekur is arguably the most brutal. To play as Assyria, to ...

"From Assyria to Iberia" features some 260 objects, most of them ancient, from institutions as far afield as North Africa, the Caucasus and the Middle East as well as the Met's own collection.

Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities.. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered ...

Assyria reborn, it would seem. Rather than the question of whether this state exists one might ask what form this renewed Assyria will take as it already exists in essence.

Assyria stands out in history as the fountainhead of empire. It was perhaps the first state to subdue the bulk of its world, extending in every direction until its frontiers consisted almost entirely ...