Assyria

Not BABILON, Nor great ALCAIRO such magnificence Equal'd in all thir glories, to inshrine BELUS or SERAPIS thir Gods, or seat Thir Kings, when AEGYPT with ASSYRIA strove In wealth and luxurie.

There are interest and power in his narratives of Julian's expedition into Assyria, of Zenobia's brilliant career, and of the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, but not the stirring power of Green or Froude or Macaulay.

The learned societies and great men of Assyria -- where are they?

An idle question that, as idle as to ask could mankind have prevented the decay that turned Assyria and Babylon to empty deserts or the slow decline and fall, the gradual social disorganisation, phase by phase, that closed the chapter of the Empire of the West!

It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria.

He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door, and himself has laid the courses.

The Arabian desert to the east the land occupied by the Jewish tribes was the corridor between the northern superpower of Assyria and the southern superpower of Egypt.

In sections on Assyria, northern and central Levant, and southern Levant, they consider such topics as the limits of historical geography: reconstructing Aramaean territories in the west according to the neo-Assyrian written sources, the Tell Fekheriye inscription and the western Assyrian border during the late ninth century BCE, Aramaean borders: the hieroglyphic Luwian evidence, the borders and exchanges between Aram and Phoenicia in the ninth-to-eighth centuries BCE in Anatolia and Syria, Biblical <,S>obah: a location attempt, and the boundary between the Aramaean Kingdom of Damascus and the Kingdom of Israel.

I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria

Hays and Peter Machinist, "Assyria and the Assyrians," attempt to summarize the history and culture of the Assyrians in seventy-five pages.

1 / 3 Ashurbanipal hunting on horseback, Nineveh, Assyria, 645 -- 635 BC.

Greece and Rome came Assyria and a leader who, a new exhibition at