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The Nimrud lens is a 3,000-year-old piece of rock crystal unearthed by Sir John Layard in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq. Since its discovery over a century ago, scientists and historians have debated its use, with one prominent Italian professor claiming the lens was used by the ancient Assyrians as part of a telescope.
Joanna Gillan - 02/08/2022 - 14:59
... kingdom located on the modern frontier of Turkey and Syria, while the latter was a sacred city dedicated to the ... of Khorsabad 'attacked by Isil' as coalition strike on Syria oil refinery kills 30. [Online] Available at: ...
dhwty - 07/03/2019 - 14:02
Nineveh was the last capital of the Assyrian Empire, as well as its most populous city. It has even been claimed that Nineveh was the most populated city in the world for a period. In recent times, the remains of Nineveh have suffered much damage as a consequence of the war that has been raging on in the region.
dhwty - 24/08/2018 - 13:58
A 4,000-year-old Assyrian tablet discovered in central Kayseri province, Turkey, is an ancient marriage contract with the first known diagnosis of infertility. The clay record says that the wife should allow her husband to hire a female slave to act as a surrogate if the couple does not conceive within two years after the date of marriage.
aprilholloway - 10/11/2017 - 19:00
... in the County of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast of Syria representing the country’s second largest city port ... an ancient port and a Roman sea fortress off the coast of Syria at Tartus. ( Sevastopol State University ) Diving among ... ancient port was discovered in the territorial waters of Syria during the second field season of the Russian-Syrian ...
ashley cowie - 28/01/2021 - 22:02
About 3,000 years ago during the Iron Age, the Assyrians were a major power in the Middle East and North Africa. Their military might was terrifying. And now, a new archaeological finding reveals more about the defensive strategies of this once powerful empire.
aprilholloway - 20/08/2013 - 08:02
The weapons, tactics and strategies of warfare have changed enormously through the centuries, but the hellish aspects of war and the deep psychological scars it leaves on warriors were apparently seen at least as far back as 1,300 B.C.
Mark Miller - 27/01/2015 - 12:44
... of Dur-Katlimmu, now the modern town of Sheikh Hamad in Syria, where it was installed at a shrine commemorating a ... to the auction house, but no details about when it left Syria are available. Bonhams is confident about the ...
aprilholloway - 29/03/2014 - 02:57
DNA testing in an archaeological context has been improving by leaps and bounds, resulting in many new discoveries relating to ancient human, animal and plant genetics. New ground in DNA analysis of the past is being broken all the time.
Nathan Falde - 23/08/2023 - 14:49
... to the North of ancient Israel and in ancient Lebanon and Syria. Discovered at Tell el Fakhariyah (on one of the tributaries of the Khabur River), Syria in 1979, was a statue containing a bilingual ... III (reigned between 859 - 824 BCE). Located in Syria, Til Barsip was situated along the Euphrates River. It ...
pkoutoupis - 04/07/2014 - 14:33
Archaeologists working at a demolished shrine in Mosul, Iraq have stumbled upon a discovery of a previously unknown palace from about 600 BC. It has been declared that the monumental find may provide new insight on the Assyrian Empire, however, archaeologists are also worried that many important artifacts were destroyed by the ISIL militants who uncovered it.
Alicia McDermott - 01/03/2017 - 22:50
On June 4, 2014, the Northern Iraq offensive began when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; sometimes referred to as the Islamic State (IS)) launched a major offensive against government forces in northern Iraq. On June 10, IS captured Mosul, approximately 400 km (250 mi) north of Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the East bank.
ashley cowie - 18/04/2020 - 17:12
... Crescent, corresponding to modern Iraq, Kuwait, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and areas along the ...
ashley cowie - 10/08/2020 - 18:34
... never to be free? The answers may lie in the history of Syria and in what we know about gladiator life within the ... populations in Judea, Cypress, Egypt, Macedonia, and Syria, there was no end of persecuted Jews being captured and ... and its subduing of several Jewish revolts in Judea and Syria . Under the reign of Emperor Hadrian, further tensions ...
B. B. Wagner - 30/08/2020 - 18:38
... is a summary of the areas in the west — in Lebanon and Syria — who gave him tribute and the bringing of ...
Natalia Klimczak - 31/12/2016 - 03:53
... and linguists alike. But across the Euphrates in Syria, the picture was much bleaker, so it seemed, if you ... to be any of these. Up until the 1960s, third millennium Syria was generally thought of as no more than ‘an ... an Italian archaeologist, Paolo Matthiae, believed that Syria should not be entirely neglected. And he selected a ...
ancient-origins - 21/05/2019 - 19:05
The year is 745 BCE and much of the Middle East is about to be conquered and confiscated by the powerful Assyrian Empire under King Tiglath-pileser III.
Cam Rea - 22/10/2016 - 01:28
... a 4,500-year-old burial site at Umm el-Marra in northern Syria. The results of their study indicate the skeletons ... animals known as ‘kungas’ found at Umm el-Marra site, Syria. (Glenn Schwartz/ John Hopkins University ) Kungas ... Middle East that corresponds to modern-day Iraq, parts of Syria and Turkey. While there is archaeological evidence to ...
Sahir - 15/01/2022 - 13:54
... will bring up hundreds of articles about the conflict in Syria and sadly the name has become a byword for the horrors ... will bring up hundreds of articles about the conflict in Syria and sadly the name has become a byword for the horrors ... held the area for several centuries after the conquest of Syria by Alexander the Great . Later it was occupied by the ...
Ed Whelan - 02/09/2019 - 01:50
Madyes, the mysterious Scythian stepped onto the world stage. There is not a great deal of information about him, nor has his name turned up in any of the Assyrian tablets. Herodotus and Strabo are the only two writers who mention him other than Arrian, who refers to him as “Idanthyrsus.”
Cam Rea - 07/01/2017 - 02:17