The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years. Today, the Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire and one of the earliest ...

By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

The life of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610–641), his military triumphs, reforms, and the establishment of Greek as the ...

The first diagnosis to handle infertility was made 4,000 years ago as depicted on an ancient Assyrian clay tablet that was ...

Archaeologists are restoring ancient treasures in Nimrud, an Assyrian city in Iraq, nearly a decade after its destruction by ...

Around the time when the Hittite Empire was established, Babylonia, a kingdom in Mesopotamia to the southeast of Anatolia, began to show signs of decline after reaching its height under King ...