Selena Wisnom walks the shelves of King Ashurbanipal’s library, revealing what the books tell us about the ideas circulating in 7th-century BC Mesopotamia.
The Acropolis Museum’s exhibition, Allspice: Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures, offered a compelling journey through time, bringing together ancient Assyrian and Greek artifacts with contemporary works by Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz.
The two Aleppo neighborhoods that have become known as Kurdish in recent years were only 50 years ago inhabited by Assyrians and Armenians, explains local journalist Aqil Hussein in Asharq Al Awsat.
A Mexican restoration team discovered an ancient and special Assyrian church altar in Israel, and what followed has been described as nothing short of a miracle.
Predicting Donald Trump’s presidency via sheep entrails must rank among the most unusual exercises in academic outreach ever undertaken. But it is just one way Dr Selena Wisnom has brought her Assyrian research to the wider world.
The traveller Nomadic Niko describes himself as a Greek-American originally from Northwest Indiana, just outside Chicago. He visited the Tur Abdin Region in Turkey's Assyrian region recently, documenting his visit in this blog post.
