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.
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.
Despite a turbulent history of genocide, attacks and pressure to leave, the Tur Abdin region still boosts fifteen villages solely inhabited by Assyrians.
