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Introducing the Assyrians

…half of the nineteenth century, which led to a brief phase of ‘Assyrian revival’. The Assyrian sculptures at the British Museum largely remain today where they were first installed over…

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary’s Final Chapter

http://research.uchicago.edu/highlights/resources/media/roth_512k.mov The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is coming to completion (if that’s possible for a dictionary of this scope!) after 80 years of hard work: Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology,…

Yale Assyrian Reliefs Exam from 2002

…cleverly) titled “Asia Has Claims Upon New England: Assyrian Reliefs at Yale” and is available at Amazon or the Yale University Art Gallery Store. I’ve also got a few left…

Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian Translator Created

Wow… great news: “A new online translator that can translate Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian and Egyptian hieroglyphics (1 of the 3 types anyway) has been developed. This is the first time I…

Why We Should Care About Archaeological Destruction

…city of Mosul sites very near Nineveh, the historical capital of the Assyrian Empire, at its height in the 9th-7th centuries BCE. Believe it or not, Assyrian artifacts caused quite…

Ashurnasirpal

…of the original (including pictures) from the British Museum site (the original is in London now): A rare example of an Assyrian statue in the round Neo-Assyrian, 883-859 BC From…

Asia Has Claims Upon New England in Libraries

Weird to see that my little book on Assyrian art at Yale University is in a number libraries around the country… Asia has claims upon New England : Assyrian reliefs…

About Sam Harrelson

…New England on Assyrian archaeology and 19th Century Missionaries from Yale University Press. Related to that work, I’ve taught Religious Studies courses at the university level and have been included…

Finishing Paper on Deuteronomistic History

…priesthood. The Assyrian empire invaded Judah shortly after Hezekiah died, and gained suzerainty. Subsequent kings of Judah, owing allegiance to the Assyrians, restored the places and objects of worship outside…

Dura Europos as a “Moonscape of Craters”

…University of Pennsylvania’s Cultural Heritage Centre and a specialist in Mesopotamian archaeology, who is visiting Erbil. She says that Nineveh, Nimrud and other cities of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which once…