For 4,600 years, a mysterious game slept in the dust of southern Iraq, largely forgotten. The passion of a museum curator and the hunger of young Iraqis for their cultural history may bring it back.
“She Who Wrote,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library, explores the world of an ancient Mesopotamian priestess who wrote with a strikingly personal voice.
The discovery in Turkey led to a looting charge against the homebuilders and captured a time when the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the region’s dominant power.
facts going back to the assyrian empire, there may be as many as a few hundred christians, not fighters, women, children, families, have been taken by isis. do you know what is going on in terms of the voracity of those reports? yeah, the ruins are from the assyrian civilization from the city that flourished around 2500 years ago. the people that lived in this area where the assyrian s lived and they adopted the name. they are not the ancient civilization, just the descendents. and the assyrian christians have