Mesopotamian warfare was waged between rival city-states such as Ur, Lagash and Umma during earlier periods, and later ...

From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.

Armed with the word of God, and after 600 years of dormancy, the Assyrians once again set out to build an empire, not a military empire, but a religious empire founded on divine revelation and ...

ISIS’ Latest Victims: Assyrian Christians ISIS has reportedly raided more than a dozen villages in northeastern Syria, capturing hundreds of the region's Assyrian Christians.

A stunning 12-ton relief depicting Assyrian deities has been uncovered beneath the ancient palace of King Ashurbanipal.

In his new book, Eckart Frahm describes the rise of Assyria from a peaceful city-state to a combative imperial power.

The ongoing legal conflict surrounding the Turkish government’s seizure of dozens of properties from the Syriac Orthodox Church has left the religious minority fearing for their survival in the ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — On Oct. 15, hundreds of Turkey’s Assyrian Syriac Christians gathered in Istanbul’s leafy Yeşilköy neighborhood to witness the inauguration of Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox ...

No kindly kulture in that kind of kustom. ASSYRIAN RELIGION A BORROWER Their religion was closely related to the earlier Sumerian and Babylonian belief systems. It was polytheism on a grand scale.

The first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the ...