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.

One issue was that during the empire’s last decades, the Assyrian crown experienced a crisis of legitimacy. It had been precipitated by Ashurbanipal, whose long reign [669-631 BCE] marked a cultural ...

Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea ...

The Persian new year Nowruz in addition to the Kurds is observed by the Afghan, Turks, and the Persian speaking people of pakistan, India and Central Asia who were once part of that empire. Regardless ...

' Persepolis Reimagined ', which was restored as a 3D space by restoring Persepolis , the capital of the Achaemenid Empire that existed around 550 BC, is open to the public. Persepolis Reimagined ...

(CN) – Roughly 2,600 years ago, the largest Mesopotamian empire fell due to political unrest, civil war, overpopulation and – according to a new study – climate change. The Neo-Assyrian Empire ...

Yifat Thareani, The Empire and the “Upper Sea”: Assyrian Control Strategies along the Southern Levantine Coast, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 375 (May 2016), pp. 77-102 ...

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire Eckart Frahm. Basic, $35 (528p) ISBN 978-1-5416-7440-0 ...