* Kha b-Nisan, the Assyrian New Year ( Assyrians )

The chariot was quickly adopted by settled peoples both as a military technology and an object of ceremonial status, especially by the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom of Egypt as well as Assyrian army and Babylonian royalty.

The Assyrian Empire was overthrown by the Medes and the Chaldean, or New Babylonian, Empire in 612 BCE.

In the conventional chronology, this Ashuruballit is identified with Ashuruballit I of the early Middle Assyrian period, whilst the New Chronology has proposed the addition of an otherwise unknown Ashuruballit " II " during the Middle Assyrian " dark age " as the author of the Amarna letters.

New Chronologist Bernard Newgrosh argues that such a hypothesis is plausible because the Ashuruballit of the Amarna letter gives a different name for his father than is given for Ashuruballit I in the Assyrian King List, and that the historical setting recorded in the annals of the early Middle Assyrian ruler differs from information gleaned from the Amarna correspondent ’ s letters.

The Patriarch is head of the church, and under him there are four archdioceses in the Assyrian Church: one for Australia and New Zealand, one for Lebanon, Syria, and Europe, another for India, and one that serves Iraq and Russia.

The Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand under the leadership of Metropolitan Mar Meelis Zaia is the fastest growing Assyrian church diocese and community in the world.

* Christoph Baumer, The Church of the East, an Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity ( London and New York: I.

Anna Eshoo was born in New Britain, Connecticut, of Assyrian and Armenian heritage.

* William G. Dever, Gezer Revisited: New Excavations of the Solomonic and Assyrian Period Defenses, The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol.

The Aramaic New Testament exists in two forms, the classical Aramaic, or Syriac, New Testament, part of the Peshitta Bible, and the " Assyrian Modern " New Testament and Psalms published by the Bible Society in Lebanon ( 1997 ) and newly translated from Greek.

The official Assyrian Church of the East ( Nestorian Church ) does not recognise the new " Assyrian Modern " edition, and traditionally considers the New Testament of the Peshitta to be the original New Testament, and Aramaic to be its original language.

This view was popularised in the West by the Nestorian Assyrian scholar George Lamsa, but is not supported by the majority of scholars, either of the Peshitta or the Greek New Testament.

The position of the Assyrian Church of the East, per Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII in 1957, is that the Syriac Peshitta ( which is written in a cursive form of Aramaic ), used in that church, is the original of the New Testament.

It was derived, both Old and New Testaments, from the Syriac Peshitta, the Bible used by the Assyrian Church of the East and other Syriac Christian traditions.

The two Assyrian lionesses guarding the original entrance to the Morgan library were sculpted in Tennessee pink marble between 1903 and 1904 by Edward Clark Potter, the same artist who sculpted the two lions in front of the New York Public Library.

At the beginning of the reign of an Assyrian king, the limmu, an appointed royal official, would preside over the New Year festival at the capital.

Psamtik I proved to be a great pharaoh by winning Egypt's independence from the Assyrian Empire and restored Egypt's prosperity through his long 54 Year reign.

The Assyrian reconquest effectively ended Nubian control over Egypt although Tantamani's authority was still recognised in Upper Egypt until his 8th Year in 656 BC when Psamtik I's navy peacefully took control of Thebes and effectively unified all of Egypt.

The first inscriptions, called Old Assyrian ( OA ), were made in the Old Assyrian period.

It is called in Assyrian mat Kaldi " land of Chaldea ".

Judah at this time was a vassal of Assyria, but Assyrian power collapsed in the 630s, and in around 622 Josiah and the Deuteronomists, as the circle around him are called by modern scholars, launched a bid for independence expressed as loyalty to " Yahweh alone " and the law-code in the book of Deuteronomy, written in the form of a treaty between Judah and Yahweh to replace the vassal-treaty with Assyria.

Most historians believe this Midas is the same person as the Mita, called king of the Mushki in Assyrian texts, who warred with Assyria and its Anatolian provinces during the same period.

Some historians believe Assyrian texts called this Midas king of the " Mushki " because he had subjected the eastern Anatolian people of that name and incorporated them into his army.

Assyrians of the Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Assyrian Church of the East observe a fast called Ba ' uta d-Ninwe or Bo ' utho d-Ninwe ( ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ ) which means Nineveh's Wish.

Under his successor Samsu-iluna ( 1749-1712 BC ) the far south of Mesopotamia was lost to a native Akkadian king called Ilum-ma-ili and became The Sealand Dynasty, remaining free of Babylon for the next 272 years, and both the Babylonians and Amorites were driven from Assyria to the north by an Assyrian governor named Puzur-Sin, and after a civil war, a native king named Adasi seized power.

During this period, Assyrian merchants established a merchant colony ( kârum ) attached to the city, which was called " Kaneš ".

The religion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 911 BCE-608 BCE, sometimes called Ashurism by Assyrians today, centered around thedge the Assyrian king as the king of their lands as well.

Between 1200 – 800 BC, much of Armenia was united under a confederation of kingdoms, which Assyrian sources called Nairi (" Land of Rivers " in Assyrian ").

The god " Adad " is called on a stele of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser I " the god of Aleppo ".

Its centre was in the Khabur River valley, with two capitals: Taite and Washshukanni ( which means " beautiful source " or " springhead " in Kurdish ), called Taidu and Ushshukana respectively in Assyrian sources.

Ninove was called the oldest because of the similarity of its name with the ancient Assyrian city Ninive, the boldest because it waited on the enemy with open gates and the wisest because the city had no jester or town fool, if one was needed a fool from a neighbouring town was lent.

In Sumerian and Akkadian ( Babylonian and Assyrian ) mythology, The Gallus ( also called gallu demons or gallas gallû ) were great demons / devils of the underworld.

** adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East & Ancient Church of the East, always called Assyrians.

In an engraving concerning the invasion of Tripoli by the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II ( 888-859 BCE ), it is called Mahallata or Mahlata, Mayza, and Kayza.

The very latest Iron Age phase is sometimes called “ Assyrian ” and the following period is universally known as the Persian period.

In the Bible it is called Qer Harreseth, and is identified as having been subject to the Assyrian empire ; in the Books of Kings ( 16: 9 ) and Book of Amos ( 1: 5, 9: 7 ), it is mentioned as the place where the Syrians went before they settled in the regions north of Palestine, and to which Tiglath-Pileser III sent the prisoners after the conquest of Damascus.

Ugaritic inscriptions refer to Egypt as Msrm, in the Amarna tablets it is called Misri, and Assyrian and Babylonian records called Egypt Musur and Musri.

The Assyrian / Syriac people of Tur Abdin call themselves Suroye and Suryoye and traditionally speak an Aramaic dialect called Turoyo.

During the First World War, 500, 000 Assyrian / Syriac people were killed in the Assyrian Genocide ( called in Syriac Sayfo, simply ' the sword ') and died alongside their coreligionists.

In the Assyrian inscriptions " Cutha " occurs on the Shalmaneser obelisk, line 82, in connection with Babylon.