A new academic study offers one of the most extensive multidisciplinary examinations to date of the historical relationship between the designations Assyria, Syria, and Syriac–a question that has occupied historians for centuries.
A newly published study is challenging long-held assumptions about the fate of Assyria after the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE, arguing that Persian-era evidence demonstrates the continued existence of both Assyria and the Assyrian people throughout the Achaemenid Empire.
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.
A small clay tablet in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin tells the story of Taputi-Belatekallim, the world’s first recorded chemist and female perfumer, whose 3,200-year-old recipe has recently been brought back to life by modern science.
For decades, the field of Middle East studies has prided itself on decolonizing narratives and giving voice to the oppressed. However, a groundbreaking article by Dr. Arbella Bet-Shlimon in the Review of Middle East Studies shows how Assyrians have been systematically left behind.
In the autumn of 1915, as the Ottoman Empire was consumed by the fires of the Great War, a small hilltop town in the Tur Abdin region became the stage for one of the most remarkable military holdouts in modern history.
A newly published scientific study has shed light on the deep culinary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia, revealing that complex bread-making practices existed in Beth-Nahrin nearly 9,000 years ago.
Professor Dr. Artur Margulov, an Assyrian from Ukraine, has conducted unique archival research on Assyrians in Ukraine, tracing their journey from World War I refugees to victims of Soviet repression and the lasting impact on their community today.
An Assyrian organization has released a year long project exploring how Assyrians in classical literature identified themselves, presenting texts from ancient and medieval sources that highlight a continuous Assyrian identity and shared heritage.
