Image of an Assyria n Orchestra, from a slab in the British Museum, dating from 7th century BC.

Assyria n warship ( probably built by Phoenicians ) with two rows of oars, relief from Nineveh, ca.

Flames rise from the city as Assyria n soldiers topple it with pickaxes and crowbars and carry off the spoils.

Here, flames rise from the city as Assyria n soldiers topple it with pickaxes and crowbars and carry off the spoils.

Assyria n Lamassu dated 721 BC

BC relief of an Assyria n attack on a walled town with zig-zag shaped battlements

Assyria n warship, a bireme with pointed bow, 700 BC.

An Assyria n winged bull, or Shedu | lamassu, Louvre.

Assyria n warship, a bireme with pointed bow.

* 625 BC: Medes and Babylonians assert their independence from Assyria and attack Nineveh ( approximate date ).

* 625 BC — Medes and Babylonians assert their independence from Assyria and attack Nineveh ( approximate date ).

* 701 BC November 10 — Deliverance from Assyrian attack ; King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Nubian Empire, revolts against king Sennacherib of Assyria.

* The seventh, Numbers 24: 23 – 24, concerns " ships of Kittim " coming from the west to attack Assyria and Eber

When Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram to attack Ahaz, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help.

But these friendly relations were only temporary, and Urtaku was killed in battle during a failed Elamite attack on Assyria.

By 616 BC Nabopolassar felt strong enough to move the center of operations northward and launch an attack on Assyria itself.

) as “ an attack on the northern kingdom of Israel .” The second explanation relies on the “ sin of Jeroboam ,” who was the first king of the northern kingdom, as the cause of the northern kingdom ’ s fall to Assyria in 722 BCE.

Kuturnahunte I of Elam, seizing the opportunity left by Samsu-iluna's attack on Uruk, marched into the ( now wall-less ) city and plundered it, among the items looted was a statue of Inanna which wouldn't be returned until the reign of Ashurbanipal 11 centuries In Assyria, a native vice regent named Puzur-Sin ejected Asinum who had been a vassal king of his fellow Amorite Hammurabi.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

* Assyria on Ancient History Encyclopedia

On the other hand, the traditional identification with a site in Assyria would then imply the later sense of " Babylonia ", and a few interpreters have additionally tried to identify Abraham's birthplace with Chaldia, a distinct region in Asia Minor on the Black Sea.

One shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass showing Assyria, Urartu and several cities, in turn surrounded by a " bitter river " ( Oceanus ), with seven islands arranged around it.

He ceased to pay the tribute imposed on his father, Ahaz, and " rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not ," but entered into a league with Egypt (; ).

So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was unmolested by the Assyrian power ; but on his accession to the throne, Hezekiah, who was encouraged to rebel " against the king of Assyria " (), entered into an alliance with the king of Egypt ().

This prosperity was built on trade in olive oil, wine, and possibly horses, with Egypt and especially Assyria providing the markets.

The work of exploration was carried on by George Smith, Hormuzd Rassam, and others, and a vast treasury of specimens of Assyria was incrementally exhumed for European museums.

The inhabitants worshiped the Pagan gods, but when the then-sparsely populated areas became infested with dangerous wild beasts, they appealed to the king of Assyria for Israelite priests to instruct them on how to worship the " God of that country.

Sennacherib ( pronounced ; Akkadian: Sîn-ahhī-erība " Sîn has replaced ( lost ) brothers for me ") was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria ( 705 – 681 BC ).

* 1365 BC — Ashur-uballit I rises to the throne on Assyria.

Some scholars have suggested Hurrians lived on in the country of Subartu north of Assyria during the early Iron Age.

Nebuchadnezzar was the oldest son and successor of Nabopolassar, who delivered Babylon from its dependence on Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins.

In this carving on the Black Obelisk, possibly Jehu, king of Israel, or Jehu's ambassador, bows before Shalmaneser III of Assyria.

On the other hand, on the great estates in Assyria and its subject provinces there were many serfs, mostly of subject race, settled captives, or quondam slaves ; tied to the soil they cultivated and sold with the estate, yet capable of possessing land and property of their own.

* 1365 BC — Ashur-uballit I rises to the throne on Assyria.

( by Archibald Sayce ) or IV ( by François Lenormant ), the successor of Pul on the throne of Assyria ( 728 BC ).

* Seleucia on Hedyphon, in the Assyria, now Kirkuk in north Iraq ()

It has been suggested that Hezekiah's destruction of the Nehushtan was a result of the balance of power moving towards Assyria, which permitted him to remain on the throne of Judah as a puppet ruler.

Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled Indica ( which is of value as recording the beliefs of the Persians about India ), and of a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books, called Persica, written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic dialect, and professedly founded on the Persian royal archives.

: Should we dwell on a certain social or cultural category: the " official religion ," the " private religion ," the religion of the " educated "... Should we emphasise a certain city or province: Ebla, Mari, Assyria?

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nah 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.