Later on, during the so-called Neo-Assyrian period [ca. 900 BC to 600 BC], the Assyrians created a very sophisticated communication network. The so-called Royal Road is often associated with the ...

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. The story of ancient ...

Historians believe that the Persian empire owed much to the Assyrian accomplishments. "Assyrian art, science, literature and technology, integrated from many sources and revealed by excavation" have ...

The newly discovered relief depicts King Ashurbanipal in a divine conference with two preeminent Assyrian deities.

Nevertheless, BP’s patronage cannot detract from the Assyrian ... the largest empire in the world, which spanned from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.

The Lachish relief depicts the Assyrian army laying siege ... By 700 BC the Assyrians had created an empire stretching from the borders of Egypt to the Persian Gulf. Their world view had expanded ...

My traveling career began by chance early one morning in the Assyrian gallery of the British ... an attempt to chart the course of the Persian Royal Road, the fifth-century B.C. imperial highway ...

Eckart Frahm In the Middle East, the Assyrian Empire was followed by others, from the Persian up to the Ottoman Empire. Although empire is a shape-shifting phenomenon, all these geopolitical entities ...

Later on, during the so-called Neo-Assyrian period [ca. 900 BCE to 600 BCE], the Assyrians created a very sophisticated communication network. The so-called Royal Road is often associated with the ...