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	Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, known as the "Mountains of Ashur".
		Assyria, therefore, was ill-prepared to face the hordes of Scythians and Medes who now began to harass the frontiers to the east; Asia Minor too was infested by the Cimmerians.
		Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians by Virginia Schomp
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyria (3768 words)

	Assyria - MSN Encarta
		Assyria (ancient Ashur, Ashshur, or Assur), ancient country of Asia, extending from about the northern border of present-day Iraq south to the mouth of the Little Zab River, in the northern part of Iraq.
		The ethnic composition of the earliest farming communities of Assyria is unknown; the inhabitants may have been a people known in later days as Subarians, who spoke an agglutinative language rather than an inflected one.
		Assyria remained in subjection until early in the 14th century, when the Mitanni Kingdom suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the rising empire of the Hittites to the north.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564347/Assyria.html (1089 words)

	Assyria - Crystalinks
		Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Ashur.
		Assyria proper was located in a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes called the "Mountains of Ashur".
		Basic to the central region of Assyria was farming, fed by both the Tigris river and water from the Armenian mountains in the north, and the Zagros mountains in the east.
	www.crystalinks.com /assyrian.html (3662 words)

	Assyria - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ashur was Assyria's chief god, but the gods of the Babylonians and Hittites were also honored.
		BC saw Assyria threatening the surrounding states, and under Tiglathpileser I Assyrian soldiers entered the kingdom centered about Urartu (Ararat; see Armenia), took Babylonia, and crossed N Syria to reach the Mediterranean.
		The king of the Medes, Cyaxares, and the Babylonian ruler Nabopolassar, joined forces and took Nineveh in 612 BC Under the son of Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Babylonia was renewed in power, and the great-grandson of Cyaxares, Cyrus the Great, was to establish the Persian Empire, which owed much to the earlier Assyrian state.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-assyria.html (916 words)

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		Assyria, as has been said, was without doubt weak at this date, that is, she was confined to the proper territory of her own agricultural Semites.
		Its court was fixed securely in midmost Assyria, away from priest-ridden Asshur, which seems to have been always anti-imperial and pro-Babylonian; for Ashurnatsirpal had restored Calah to the capital rank which it had held under Shalmaneser I but lost under Tiglath Pileser, and there the kings of the Middle Empire kept their throne.
		Remembering who it was that had given the first independent king to Assyria they resented that their city, the chosen seat of the earlier dynasties, which had been restored to primacy by the great Tiglath Pileser, should fall permanently to the second rank.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8east10.txt (17753 words)

	Assyria (general introduction)
		Assyria was overthrown in 612 BCE by the Babylonians.
		The ancient Near East had become unstable by the invasions of the Sea People, and there were other nations that had left their homelands in search for more fertile land, like the Aramaeans.
		Assyria's fortunes were restored, and under king Aurnasirpal II (883-859), the soldiers of Aur, now often fighting on horseback, marched to the Zagros mountains, reached Lake Urmia, and waged war against the kingdom of
	www.livius.org /as-at/assyria/assyria.html (1771 words)

	People Of Ancient Assyria
		Assyria is the area surrounding the Tigris on east and west, from the mountains of Armenia in the north to the Hamrin Hills in the south; a flood plain including the upper reaches of the Tigris and its eastern tributaries.
		Assyria is by contrast a landscape of low hills, of much greater geological age than Babylonia, rich in oil wells, dependent on ample winter rainfall; a country with a stony subsoil, where the light grey alabastine limestone, often used to embellish Assyrian monumental buildings, crops out here and there through the surface of the soil.
		Assyria was incapable, even in alliance with Egypt, of withstanding the attacks of the Babylonian armies, which coincided with the march of Median troops against Assyrian cities.
	www.aina.org /books/poaa/poaa.htm (17783 words)

	assyria
		Ancient Assyria was located in north Mesopotamia and spanned four countries: In Syria it extends west to the Euphrates river; in Turkey it extends north to Harran, Edessa, Diyarbakir, and Lake Van; in Iran it extends east to Lake Urmi, and in Iraq it extends to about 100 miles south of Kirkuk.
		This is from where Assyria derived her strength, as it could feed a large population of professionals and craftsman, which allowed it to expand and advance the art of civilization.
		It is in Assyria that the story of the flood originates, 2000 years before the old testament is written.
	www.goodnewsmedia.com /assyria.htm (1912 words)

	Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XII. Rise of the Hittites, Mitannians, Kassites, Hyksos, and Assyrians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The ancient god Set (Sutekh), who became a demon, and was ultimately re-exalted as a great deity during the Nineteenth Dynasty, may also have had some connection with the prehistoric Hatti.
		One of the monarchs with whom Thothmes III corresponded was the king of Assyria.
		Thus Assyria rose from a petty state in a comparatively brief period to become the rival of Babylonia, at a time when Egypt at the beginning of its Nineteenth Dynasty was endeavouring to win back its lost empire in Syria, and the Hittite empire was being consolidated in the north.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/myths/mba18.htm (6891 words)

	Ancient Near Eastern Art: New Light on an Assyrian Palace \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The king of Assyria called himself a "powerful warrior...who has no rival among the princes of the four quarters of the earth." At its greatest extent, his empire reached from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean Sea and into Egypt.
		Parts of Iran and Anatolia were also subject to "the king of the world." Only the strongest and ablest monarchs could maintain control of this vast region and the major routes of trade and communication with the Mediterranean seacoast.
		Chief among the cities of Assyria were Ashur, the ancient and religious capital, named after the principal Assyrian god; Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), chosen as the capital by Ashurnasirpal II (r.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/anesite/html/el_ane_2map.htm (299 words)

	Ancient Wisdom Bookstore 3 Ancient Civilizations
		Steven Mitchell is the translator of these ancient texts and his sensitivity to the poetic flow of the concepts and instructions enhance this version of the TAO TE CHING.
		Ancient Egypt was, Wilkinson writes, the most theocratic of any ancient culture; religion pervaded daily life for comoners as well as the pharaohs.
		Morkot examines ancient and antiquarian perceptions of the exotic lands of Nubia and Ethiopia and attempts to tie the towns of Kush to archaeological remains.
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	Assyria - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Assyria (ancient Ashur, Ashshur, or Assur), ancient country of Asia, extending from about the northern border of present-day Iraq south to the...
		The early history of the art of Assyria, from the 18th to the 14th century bc, is still largely unknown.
		- ancient Mesopotamian kingdom with a large empire extending southward and eastward, at its height from the ninth to the seventh centuries bc
	encarta.msn.com /Assyria.html (111 words)

	Ancient Nubia -- Map and History - 25th Dynasty Egypt
		Kerma’s civilisation emerged out of an ancient pastoral culture that had flourished in that part of Sudan since at least 7000 BC when the first settlements were established.
		Even when Ancient Egypt was controlled by outsiders, Nubian men and women continued to hold high positions within Ancient Egypt.
		The ancient Nubians had religious beliefs similar to those of the ancient Egyptians. For example, they buried their kings in pyramid tombs.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/mapofnubia.html (2993 words)

	Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XIV. Ashur the National God of Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Assyria's greatness was reflected by Ashur, but he also reflected the origin and growth of that greatness.
		Seeing that the eagle received prominence in the mythologies of Sumeria and Assyria, as a deity of fertility with solar and atmospheric attributes, it is highly probable that the Ashur symbol, like the Egyptian Horus solar disk, is a winged symbol of life, fertility, and destruction.
		It may be that in Assyria, as in India, the crude beliefs and symbols of the masses were spiritualized by the speculative thinkers in the priesthood, but no literary evidence has survived to justify us in placing the Assyrian teachers on the same level as the Brahmans who composed the Upanishads.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/myths/mba20.htm (7939 words)

	Arbela - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Within Assyria, this cult center was second only to the capital Aššur, and the city remained important in the first millennium.
		According to the Behistun inscription, Arbela was the place where the Median rebel leader Tritantaechmes was crucified by the Persian king Darius the Great in the summer of 521 BCE.
		This suggests that Arbela retained some of its ancient importance; this is not surprising, because the town commands the road from Babylonia and Assyria into Armenia along the Great Zab.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Arbela (367 words)

	Ancient History Quizzes and Ancient History Trivia -- FunTrivia
		Pompeii is an ancient city that was buried by a volcanic eruption.
		Ancient China was the oldest continuous civilisation in the world.
		Arguably the greatest period of ancient Assyria lasted from 745 until 612 B.C., a period in which the Assyrians attained the level of empire.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/history/ancient_history.html (1154 words)

	Assyria, History of Assyria from Rise to Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A history of ancient Assyria (Assyrians) from its rise to fall including Nineveh, its kings, cities, laws and contributions to civilization
		and of a substance resembling the papyrus of ancient Egypt.
		Not belonging to the epistolary literature of Assyria and
	history-world.org /assyrians.htm (2748 words)

	Royalty.nu - History of Iraq - The Assyrians
		The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land, 1840-1860 by Mogens Trolle Larsen.
		Annals of the Kings of Assyria: The Cuneiform Texts With Translations, Transliterations, etc., From the Original Documents by E. Wallis Budge.
		Nineveh and Its Remains: A Narrative of an Expedition to Assyria by Austen Henry Layard.
	www.royalty.nu /MiddleEast/Iraq/Assyria.html (644 words)

	Assyria Resources
		Assyria A short history of ancient Assyria from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
		Assyria 1365-609 B.C. A concise summary of the Middle and Late Assyrian periods from the Metropolitan Museum.
		Ancient Near East: Empires from 700-300 BCE an interactive map that shows the boundaries of the Assyrian Empire in 660 BCE as well as Babylonia in 539 BCE, Persia in 520 BCE and Macedonia in 323 BCE.
	intranet.dalton.org /groups/Assyria/index.html (1794 words)

	Inventing Assyria: exoticism and reception in nineteenth-century England and France Art Bulletin, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Roughly comparable arrays of ancient Assyrian artifacts found by both French and English excavators were put on display almost simultaneously in the Louvre and British Museum, starting in 1847.
		My primary focus, then, is not ancient Assyria itself or its excavation, but rather what was made of it within nineteenth-century Europe.
		As we shall see, the establishment of Assyria in the cultural and artistic discourse of the West illuminated, often precisely as it challenged, established norms of cultural discourse.
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	Journal of Religion and Society
		The past was ancient Greece and Rome of course, but above all, the past was the biblical narrative, the Land of Goshen in Pharaonic Egypt, the puny but god-ridden Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the Judea of Jesus, and the Mesopotamia ruled by the merciless kings of Assyria and Babylonia.
		The first antiquities went on display in the Louvre in 1847; the final publication of the expedition in 1849-1850, published in three elephant folios at a cost equivalent to $810 in 1988 (Figure 3),<1> was intended for the libraries and salons of the truly well-to-do.
		For the honor of King and Country, it was imperative that sober Englishmen should hoist the British Jack over ancient Assyria by procuring the finest monuments for the British Museum and blaze the way in deciphering the inscriptions written in the baffling wedge-shaped signs.
	moses.creighton.edu /JRS/2001/2001-12.html (4630 words)

	Chronology of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The chronology of the ancient Near East deals with the notoriously difficult task of assigning dates to various events, rulers and dynasties of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC.
		They provide clear evidence that the New Kingdom kings Amenhotep III and Akhenaten were contemporaries of Kadashman-Enlil I and Burnaburiash II of Babylon, Ashur-uballit I of Assyria, and Suppiluliumas I of the Hittite empire.
		In this section an attempt is made to indicate briefly the causes which have led to so great a diversity of opinion, and to describe in outline the principles underlying the chief schemes of chronology that have been suggested.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chronology_of_the_Ancient_Orient (4159 words)

	Assyria - The Assyrian History - AN web site
		Assyria was an ancient name for that part of MESOPOTAMIA on the upper Tigris River now included in the northern Iraqi provinces of Ninawa (Nineveh), Sulaymaniya, Tamim, and Irbil.
		Despite the notorious brutality (and efficiency) of the Assyrian army, which the Assyrians themselves assiduously publicized, the great accomplishments of ancient Assyria in art and architecture, and also in literature, are universally recognized.
		In treating of Assyria it is extremely difficult not to speak at the same time of its sister, or rather mother country, Babylonia, as the peoples of these two countries, the Semitic Babylonians and Assyrians, are both ethnographically and linguistically the same race, with identical religion, language, literature, and civilization.
	www.assyriannation.com /history/assyrian_history.htm (642 words)

	ASSYRIAN HISTORY - Ancient
		ANCIENT INVENTIONS Abook showing the earliest known example of the tumbler lock and key system was found in the ruins of the palace of Khorsabad, built by the Assyrian king Sargon II Ancient Composite Bows Evidence in favour of the theory of the Assyrian nationality of the bow and arrow
		Ancient Near Eastern Texts Including The Birth of Sargon story, Annals of Sennacherib and Assyrian marriage contracts.
		State Archives of Assyria : The SAA project of the University of Helsinki.
	www.aina.org /aol/link4.htm (555 words)

	Layard and Assyria
		The same sort of fire damage was found by Botta at Khorsabad and was undoubtedly due to the destruction of Assyria at the end of the 7th century BC as described in the Old Testament.
		We had passed several tells and the double banks of ancient canals, showing that we were still amidst the remains of ancient civilisation.
		The ancient site was cut by the river and the bulls had been partially exposed as the result of a landslide and so excavating them was going to be tricky.
	www.odysseyadventures.ca /articles/layard_assyria/layard_text.htm (14364 words)

	EGYPT, PREHISTORY, AND THE "OTHER ANCIENTS" - PART I of the Amazing Ancient World - Premier Ancient Civilization Web ...
		The ancient city of Alexandria was at the beginning of the third century B.C. the birthplace of the great plan to build a library.
		This controversy stems from propositions considered controversial: that the ancient Egyptians were fl, that ancient Egypt was superior to other ancient civilizations and had a major influence on Europe and Africa, and that academic racists over the years prevented this information from being disseminated.
		668-627 B.C.) was the ruler of ancient Assyria at the height of Assyrian military and cultural accomplishments.
	www.omnibusol.com /anegypt.html (9443 words)

	Ancient Capital to be Flooded
		ancient city of Ashur, capital of the powerful
		When the dam is finished later this year, that digging will have to stop.
		It's hard to argue that an ancient site should be kept intact in the face of modern starvation.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/archaeology/ashurflood.htm (261 words)

	Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XIV. Ashur the National God of Assyria
		Whatever the explanation may be of one animal deity of fertility slaying another, it seems certain that the conflict was associated with the idea of sacrifice to procure the food supply.
		In Assyria the various primitive gods were combined as a winged bull, a winged bull with human head (the
		Layard suggested that the latter deity, with eagle's head, was Nisroch, "the word Nisr signifying, in all Semitic languages, an eagle".
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/mba/mba20.htm (8137 words)

	Germany in Prophecy
		The ancient capital of the land of Hatti was popularly known among the Romans as "Ninus Vetus -- the old Nineveh" ("History of Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria and Asia Minor", by G. Perrot and C. Chipiez, Vol.
		All ancient Greek writers agreed that Assyria and Anatolia (the land of Hatti) were allies.
		Just because a few of the libraries and monuments of ancient Assyria contain records written in a Semitic tongue, that does not demonstrate that the common people spoke the same language.
	www.british-israel.ca /Germany.htm (5329 words)

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