Aside from the Hebrew Bible, Jehu appears in Assyrian documents, notably in the Black Obelisk where he is depicted as kissing the ground in front of Shalmaneser III.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

* Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Babylonian and Assyrian Literature.

" For example, the 9th century Assyrian Black Obelisk lists Jehu as the " son of Omri " even though Jehu was from a different lineage and did not take the crown directly after Omri.

From there they turned west along the coast of the Black Sea as far as Sinope, and then headed south towards Tabal, in 705 defeating an Assyrian army in central Anatolia, resulting in the death of Sargon.

According to one Assyrian inscription, the Cimmerians ( Gimirru ) originally went forth from their homeland of Gamir or Uishdish on the shores of the Black Sea in " the midst of Mannai " around this time.

Above and beyond this, an ‘ alphabet soup ’ of other lesser-known smaller Parties were associated with the LNM, namely the Revolutionary Communist Group – RCG, the Lebanese Revolutionnary Party – LRP, the Front of Patriotic Christians – PFC, the Democratic Lebanese Movement – DLM, the Movement of Arab Lebanon – MAL, the Arab Revolutionary Movement – ARM, the Partisans of the Revolution, the Vanguards of Popular Action – VPA, the Organization of Arab Youth – OAY, the Units of the Arab Call – UAC, the Movement of Arab Revolution – MAR, the Sixth of February Movement, the 24 October Movement – 24 OM, the Lebanese Movement in Support of Fatah – LMSF, the Assyrian Assault Battalion – AAB, the Knights of Ali, the Black Panthers, etc.

The Assyrian Levies were founded by the British in 1928, with ancient Assyrian military rankings such as Rab-shakeh, Rab-talia and Tartan, being revived for the first time in millennia for this force.

File: BM ; RM6-ANE, Assyrian Sculpture 32-East ( N ), Centre Island + North Wall-~ Assyrian Empire +-Lamassu, Stela's, Statue's, Obelisk's, Relief Panel's ) & Full Projection. 1. JPG | The British Museum, Room 6-Assyrian Sculpture

He disposed of his valuable collection of Babylonian, Sabaean, and Sassanian antiquities to the trustees of the British Museum, who also made him a considerable grant to enable him to carry on the Assyrian and Babylonian excavations initiated by Layard.

During these expeditions, often in circumstances of great difficulty, Layard despatched to England the splendid specimens which now form the greater part of the collection of Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum.

Hormuzd Rassam ( 1826 – 16 September 1910 ) (), was a native Assyrian Assyriologist, British diplomat and traveller who made a number of important discoveries, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest literature.

Even though he became a British citizen later in his life he can be accepted to be the first known Assyrian, Ottoman and Middle Eastern archaeologist.

Category: British people of Assyrian descent

Prominent examples include the Ancient Assyrian Empire, the Greek city state of Sparta, the Roman Empire, the Aztec nation, the Kingdom of Prussia, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( which would later become part of the Soviet Union ), the Italian Colonial Empire during the reign of Benito Mussolini, Nazi Germany and American Imperialism.

A small minority of Assyrians of the above denominations accepted the Protestant Reformation in the 20th century, possibly due to British influences, and is now organized in the Assyrian Evangelical Church, the Assyrian Pentecostal Church and other Protestant Assyrian groups.

The British administration employed Assyrian troops to put down Arab and Kurdish rebellions in the aftermath of World War I.

Some kind of volute capital is shown in the Assyrian bas-reliefs, but no Assyrian capital has ever been found ; the enriched bases exhibited in the British Museum were initially misinterpreted as capitals.

With Iraqi independence, the new Assyrian spiritual-temporal leader, Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, demanded the Assyrians be given autonomy within Iraq as had been promised by the British and Russians during World War I, seeking support from Britain.

His followers planned to resign from the Iraq Levies ( a formidable and highly capable force, under the command of the British, that had served British interests putting down Kurdish and Arab rebellions against Britain since 1921 ), and to re-group as a militia and concentrate in the north, creating a de facto Assyrian enclave, although this never happened as it was prevented by the British.

A statue of Nabu from Calah, erected during the reign of the Assyrian king, Tiglath-pileser III is on display in the British Museum.

Under the British mandate, Assyrians were organized into militia groups called " the Assyrian Levies " and were used to put down revolts and support the British military presence in Iraq.

The British sent a mission under an Assyrian born British subject named Hormuzd Rassam, who bore a letter from the Queen-this letter was in response to a letter sent to the queen from Tewodros, but it was three years late, having been filed-but brought with him no skilled workers as Tewodros had requested.

Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of Ashurbanipal's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the Museum a focus for Assyrian studies.

* I. J. Gelb, Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary 5, University of Chicago Press, 1970 ISBN 0-226-62309-2

A city of Sur-marrati, refounded by Sennacherib in 690 BC according to a stele in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, is insecurely identified with a fortified Assyrian site of Assyrian at al-Huwaysh, on the Tigris opposite to modern Samarra.

The collections of the National Museum of Iraq include art and artifacts from ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Chaldean civilizations.

: On April 12, 2003, The Associated Press reported: “ The famed Iraq National Museum, home of extraordinary Babylonian, Sumerian and Assyrian collections and rare Islamic texts, sat empty Saturday-except for shattered glass display cases and cracked pottery bowls that littered the floor .”

The Middle East Museum exhibition displays objects, found by German archeologists and others, from the areas of Assyrian, Sumerian and Babylonian culture.

Assyrian demon Pazuzu, first millennium BC, Louvre Museum.

The Historical Society later acquired a collection of Egyptian and Assyrian art, which was eventually transferred to the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Arrested in 2006 attempting to sell three Assyrian reliefs to the British Museum.

It incorporated a Museum of Antiquities, as it had been decided during the planning stage that Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities should be grouped with art in the new structure, rather than remaining with the natural history collections that remained in the old building.

• After the cease-fire directly, Shamma made a concert at the National Museum of Baghdad in The Assyrian Hall winged bulls between giant titled " Comes from goingpast .. for the future " is the first in a concert after the war in Iraq.

Its first published book was Robert F. Harper's Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum.

It is now known that an earlier example of the pattern can be seen in the Assyrian rooms of the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The book is dedicated to Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, the translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum, with whom she met to discuss the history of the ancient Near East while writing the book.

* E. A. Wallis Budge appointed Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum.

A carved stone panel dating to between 640-615 BCE that was excavated from the South-West Palace of the Assyrian ruler Sennacherib, at Nineveh in Iraq ( British Museum, ME 124955 ) depicts two figures, one clearly clasping a scroll and the other bearing what is thought to be an open diptych.

In the Assyrian documents he is simply referred to as " Jehu son of Omri " ( The House of Omri being an Assyrian name for the Kingdom of Israel ).

After 1180 BC, the Hittite empire disintegrated into several independent " Neo-Hittite " states, subsequent to losing much territory to the Middle Assyrian Empire and being finally overrun by the Phrygians, another Indo-European people who are believed to have migrated from The Balkans.

Temples were still being dedicated to the national god Ashur in his home city and in Harran during the 4th century AD, indicating an Assyrian identity was still strong.

Achaemenid Assyria ( 539 BC – 330 BC ) retained a separate identity ( Athura ), official correspondence being in Imperial Aramaic, and there was even a determined revolt of the two Assyrian provinces of Mada and Athura in 520 BC.

This occurred at the same time that Israel was being destroyed by Assyria, and was probably the result of a cooperative arrangement with the Assyrians to establish Judah as an Assyrian vassal controlling the valuable olive industry.

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II in the late 8th century BCE with many people from the capital Samaria being taken captive to Media and the Khabur River valley.

Yahalom is usually translated by the Septuagint as an " onyx ", but sometimes as " beryl " or as " jasper "; onyx only started being mined after the Septuagint was written, so the Septuagint's term " onyx " probably does not mean onyx – onyx is originally an Assyrian word meaning ring, and so could refer to anything used for making rings.

It was during this time that previously minor powers, those being the Assyrian empire based in Mesopotamia and the Israelites and Phoenicians based in the Levant, began to emerge.

Nabopolassar was followed by his son Nebuchadnezzar II, whose reign of 43 years made Babylon once more the mistress of much the civilized world, taking over a fair portion of the former Assyrian Empire once ruled by its Assyrian brethren, the eastern and north eastern portion being taken by the Medes and the far north by the Scythians.

However, it began to decline around the 8th century BC, being marginalized by Aramaic during the Neo Assyrian Empire.

This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC.

The Assyrian king, whilst not being a god himself, was acknowledged as the chief servant of the chief god, Ashur.

In time, Assur was promoted from being the local deity of Assur to the overlord of the vast Assyrian domain, with worship being conducted in his name throughout the lands of the Assyrians.

Assyrians to this day still use the names of ancient Mesopotamian gods and rulers as both first and last names ; Ashur, Hadad, Shamash, Lilitu / Lilith, Sennacherib, Sin ( Shinu ), Sargon, Semiramis, Ishtar and Lamassu for example are still common names, and some months in the Assyrian calendar are named after ancient gods such as Tammuz, and all periods are listed as being blessed by ancient gods.

The walls of Assyrian palaces were lined with sculptured and coloured slabs of stone, instead of being painted as in Chaldea.

The interpretation may perhaps be supported by an Assyrian bas-relief which represents a Herculean male figure carrying an ape on his head and leading another ape by a leash, the animals being apparently brought as tribute to a king.

After the middle of the 12th century BC follows another long period of comparative neglect, but with the conquest of Babylonia by the Assyrian king Sargon II, at the close of the 8th century BC, we meet again with building inscriptions, and under Ashurbanipal, about the middle of the 7th century BC, we find Ekur restored with a splendour greater than ever before, the ziggurat of that period being 58 by 39 m. After the fall of the Neo Assyrian Empire Ekur appears to have gradually fallen into decay, until finally, in the Seleucid period, the ancient temple was turned into a fortress.