The day comes within a broader international context launched by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), ...
What I did not expect to find was something far more remarkable: a living ecosystem devoted to preserving the Syriac language ...
"We are not Arabs, nor Kurds, nor Turkmen -- we are Assyrians, descendants of an ancient civilization," he says with evident ...
The Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference of which Nona was a ...
References to "blood money" appear in letters, treaties, legal documents, and debt contracts under the term "damum." The ...
Although the Christian population of Iraq has declined dramatically this century, to below one per cent of the population, five of the 26-member national football squad that qualified for the ...
The Assyrian Green Church in Tikrit, Iraq, built in the 7th century, which was destroyed by ISIS. (AINA) -- According to a report by BBC Arabic, Islamists in Tikrit have destroyed The Assyrian Green ...
The Arabic letter "n" (inside red circle), signifying "Nasrani" (Christian), on an Assyrian home in Mosul. (AINA) -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured the city of Mosul, Iraq on June ...
Every work dealing with the history of beer, it seems, starts out talking blithely about the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia as the first brewers, the inventors of beer, some eight to ten thousand ...
Iraq's cultural authorities have revealed a discovery that could redefine the scale of Assyrian art: a six-meter-tall winged bull, or lamassu, recently uncovered in Mosul. The find, announced by ...
The 'Warka Mask,' a Sumerian artifact from 3100 B.C., was looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the final days of Saddam Hussein's regime. It was later found buried in someone's backyard (Samir ...
According to ancient texts, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon boasted elaborate terraces, magnificent water features and floating plants. The decadent grounds are reputed to have been built in the ...
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