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A study by Yale’s Eckart Frahm and Alexander Johannes Edmonds, of the University of Münster, in Germany, provides evidence for three previously unknown Assyrian kings who ruled for brief periods in the 10th and 8th centuries B.C.E.
The study, “Three New Kings of Assyria,” appears in the Journal of Cuneiform Studies.
The discovery of what look to be three additional kings during the last stage of Assyrian history, known as the Neo-Assyrian period, “came as a surprise — no one expected there would be room for any new and unknown rulers during this time,” said Frahm, the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The new study builds on previous research by Frahm, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Assyrian empire, which described evidence of one of the three kings.
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