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The reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I was a hallmark of what was to come in the arsenal of Neo-Assyrian subjugation. Before his war with Babylon, Tukulti-Ninurta I presented himself as the king who would restore the will of the gods, thereby justifying his attack. The relationship between the Assyrian ruler and the Assyrian pantheon had been notable since the start of the Old Assyrian period, when the leader was given the title “governor on behalf of Assur.”
By the height of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the king was essentially the mouthpiece of the gods, acting as their representative on earth. The Assyrians had adopted the ancient concept of divine kingship from the Sumerians and Akkadians, and it is constantly emphasized in art and inscriptions from that time."
Excavators of Tel Hadid recently released the discovery of a unique seal stamp from the seventh century b.c.e., the time of Assyrian domination of the Levant.
Researchers from Iraq, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have launched a new Arabic-language platform for one of the world’s largest collections of cuneiform texts. The project gives Arabic speakers wider access to ancient records written thousands of years ago across Mesopotamia.
The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their clay, barely used fire to harden the texts, and that tablets made in the workshop coexisted with others brought from outside.
Abbot Eliyo Atto, one of the founders of the Mor Ephrem monastery in Twente, the Netherlands, was a friend of young people, a brother to the elderly and a paternal teacher.
German police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with a fire that damaged the construction site of the Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Mary in Germany last weekend.
While today Tur Abdin stands as a symbol of historic endurance, it was once the epicenter of a remarkable, half-millennium-long ecclesiastical fracture that saw two rival Patriarchs claiming authority over the same flock.
Excavators of Tel Hadid recently released the discovery of a unique seal stamp from the seventh century b.c.e., the time of Assyrian domination of the Levant.
Heather Reilly
