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.
Archaeologists have made a major discovery in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh, uncovering a monumental stone relief depicting two of the most important deities of the Assyrian pantheon alongside one of the empire’s most famous kings.
Ancient written sources record that when Alexander the Great returned to Mesopotamia from the Indus Valley around 324 B.C., he founded a strategic new port in the region, known as Alexandria on the Tigris. Until recent years, however, its exact location remained lost to archaeologists.
Assyrians across the world recently commemorated the martyrdom of Catholicos-Patriarch of the Church of the East, Mar Benyamin XXI Shimun, who was assassinated on 3 March 1918 by the Kurdish tribal chief Simko Shikak.
We're honoring Naum Faik Palak’s memory on his day of remembrance, 5 February, by publishing a translation of a special article he wrote more than one hundred years ago.
