MP Kostis Efstathiou and the Cyprus parliament. The House of Representatives of Cyprus has adopted a resolution condemning the historical massacre of Assyrians in a unanimous vote during its plenary ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Whereas, more than one hundred years have passed since the mass extermination of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s, World War I, and the ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in the Old Testament. “For me as a historian, this is somewhat ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

Ancient Assyrian texts detailed a legal system of paying blood money for murdered merchants. The blood money system created a formal practice across Assyria and Anatolia, complete with diplomatic ...

Historical evidence showing communication between the Assyrian Empire and the king of Judah has been discovered next to the Western Wall during an Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavation in ...