‘Assyria’ Review: A Mesopotamian Empire’s Might Assyrians served as villains in the Bible and heroes to modern Romantics like Byron. Their true history was lengthy and complex .

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 ...

In 763 BCE, within the vast and powerful Assyrian Empire centered around the city of Nineveh, a remarkable and somewhat eerie event occurred. On June 15, in the full light of day, the world ...

The Assyrian Empire, already battered by a civil war, fell in 612 BCE to a joint assault from its former subjects, the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt — the largest empire of its time — collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, ...

(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 ...