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 ...

Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance" after an excavation of house cellars in the city of Midyat led to the discovery of a vast cave system in 2020. ( AFP) Midyat, ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of an Assyrian military campaign against Judaea that resulted in the siege of Jerusalem. The campaign was launched in 701 B.C., when Sennacherib was king of ...

Preface: from discovery to destruction -- Introduction: masterpieces of ancient ivory -- The city of Nimrud and it's discovery -- Ah, Assyria! -- The Phoenicians: master craftsmen -- Syro-phoenician ...

Assyria to America examines the ancient and modern histories of Bowdoin’s six reliefs from ancient Nimrud bringing them together, for the first time in their 150-year history at Bowdoin, with ivory ...

Excavations in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a massive relief depicting both the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire and two deities. The remains—missed by archaeologists for more than ...

In his new book "Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire" (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BC to 609 BC) ...

Object Details author Herrmann, Georgina Contents Preface: from discovery to destruction -- Introduction: masterpieces of ancient ivory -- The city of Nimrud and it's discovery -- Ah, Assyria! -- The ...

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