In a move aimed at fostering interfaith dialogue and strengthening ties with minority groups, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received a high-ranking delegation from the Syriac Orthodox Church at the presidential complex in Ankara.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese inaugurated the hall of St. Joseph Church, which belongs to the Assyrian Church of the East in Sydney, in a sign of the growing importance of the Assyrian-Australian community.
The new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia.
From the villages of Tur Abdin to readers around the world. Ten years after its original Swedish release, Nemrud Kurt-Haninke's novel about the Seyfo genocide is now entering the English-speaking world.
Housed today in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is a remarkable marble relief dating to approximately 400–300 BCE, centuries after the political fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
The Assyrian Association of Tur Abdin has announced the discovery of historic Assyrian stone inscriptions and church remains in the village of Eştrako (Ortaca), a former Assyrian settlement in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey.
In a powerful symbol of resilience, the Assyrian Catholic community in northern Iraq has marked a milestone in the restoration of the historic Mar Behnam Monastery, more than a decade after it was systematically vandalized and partially destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS).
The Shamash Gate in ancient Nineveh has revealed rare evidence of two violent chapters separated by more than 2,500 years: the fall of the Assyrian capital in 612 B.C. and the battle to free Mosul from ISIS in 2017.
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.
