The Assyrian genocide, known as the Seyfo, has been included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a significant development in efforts to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms.
Historian Dr. Jonathan Valk offers a re-examination of ancient Assyrian identity, showing how one of history’s oldest continuous identities survived across millennia through radical adaptation.
More than 200 letters, photographs and family records documenting Assyrian life in the Lake Urmia region have been digitized and will soon be made widely accessible through the University of California, Berkeley.
A conversation between Assyrian scholars exposes how academics in Middle East studies have long overlooked Assyrian indigeneity and echoed patterns of atrocity denial.
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.
