The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Mark Healy’s The Ancient Assyrians is a wonderful exploration of the ancient Assyrian Empire and its intimidating army during the crucial period between 883-612 BC. It is a must-read for those seeking an in-depth study into one of history’s most enigmatic and powerful...
The Assyrian Homeland To the Assyrians, the ‘Land of Ashur’, the mat Ashur – a term first employed in the Middle Assyrian kingdom – embraced not just the Assyrian triangle but also the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that had been conquered in the 13th...
Mark Healy, many congratulations on your new title, The Ancient Assyrians: Empire and Army. Who were the Assyrians? We would locate Assyria in the northern half of modern Iraq. The name Assyria derives from that of its chief god, Ashur. Assyria = ’the land of Ashur’....
