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*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts describing Assur and the Assyrians *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “All who hear the news of your destruction clap their hands for joy. Did no one escape your endless cruelty?” - Nahum 3:19 In northern Iraq, on the banks of the Tigris River, lie the ruins of the ancient city of Aššur. This was the first capital and the most important religious center of the Assyrian Empire. Underneath the cover of sand and soil are almost six meters of dense stratigraphic layers that reveal the passage of millennia. Known today as Qal’at Sherqat, and also as Kilah Shregat, the city dates back to the 3rd millennium BCE. In that time period, the Assyrian army became the largest yet seen, and their warriors were both the greatest and cruelest in the land. They conquered an empire from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea; they despoiled the great city of Babylon, and they enslaved the tribes of Israel. Even the pharaoh of Egypt paid them tribute. No army had ever carried war so far. Indeed, Aššur was the heart of one of antiquity’s most infamous war machines. When scholars study the history of the ancient Nea

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Author

Charles River Editors

Publisher

Charles River Editors

Published

2016

Language

EN

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nonfiction