the kingdom experienced a progressive decline, culminating in the overthrow of King Samsu-ditana by the Kassites. This ushered in a period of continuous invasions (Hittites, Arameans, Chaldeans) until ...
Archaeologists are painstakingly putting together artefacts at Nimrud shattered by Islamic State jihadists, undaunted by the ...
as it was looted and burned by invaders from Babylon and Media during the fall of the Assyrian Empire. Cuneiform, the writing system used on many of the discovered artifacts, is considered to be ...
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By the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, Tarsus was a thriving administrative centre. Under Greek influence after ...
Around 720 BCE, Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian king Sargon ... Zedekiah’s reign ended with the siege and fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar II, dated to ...
While the majority of Sunni Arab Syrians celebrated the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus and in exile, the Kurds, along with other minoritized Christian and Assyrian communities, engaged in a ...
One of the world's earliest empires, Assyria represents a crucial part of Iraq's cultural identity, which the so-called ...
Its reign ended in turmoil when an Assyrian invasion of Egypt caused it to fall from power ... Egypt became a province of the nascent Roman Empire, straining the fragile truce that the Kushites ...