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,…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…author of Asia Has Claims Upon New England on Assyrian archaeology and 19th Century Missionaries from Yale University Press. He has taught Religious Studies courses at the university level and…
…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…
…my work published last year by Yale entitled Asia Has Claims Upon New England: Assyrian Reliefs at Yale. “Floods of joy o’er my soul, like the sea billows roll…” I’ve…
…pieces of art. My main emphasis is on Mesopotamian and Near Eastern Art (Assyrian, Akkadian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Elamite, Sassanian, Parthian, and Syro-Phoenician) but I also work on certain projects with…
…all the wonderments over the reception theory behind ancient Assyrian artifacts in the context of a evangelistic 19th century call to the ministry… and the Golden Leaf of tobacco that…
…Univ of Chicago and ponder how, much like the consultants, false confidence in their own superiority (instead of developing better chariots) cost the Assyrian empire it’s position as a super…
…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…
…(the Assyrian calendar being my favorite) which are based on lunar cycles. There are numerous other calendars in use by many people on earth today, and this particular coordinate doesn’t…
…rivers and known as Mesopotamia has been home to a succession of cultures — Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian. Many believe southern Iraq was the site of the biblical Garden of…
