To appease his resentful older son Shamash-shumu-ukin, Esarhaddon placed him on the throne of Babylonia, which at the time was a vassal state to Assyria. This effort to make "equal brothers" was ...

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As to comparison with contemporary warfare, there is very little in the more gruesome sections of the Assyrian royal annals that can not be equaled or exceeded from the records of events in Europe and ...

Photograph by Granger Collection/Age Fotostock Babylon was famous for its Hanging Gardens, which some believe may have actually been in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, where this relief ...

They belong to three main Assyrian churches: 1) The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac Orthodox Church ("Jacobite"), ...

The weapons were probably of the same nature — proof of the king's victories in Babylonia and Elam ... the reliefs were to the Assyrians what painted pottery was to the ancient Greeks.

During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal ...

Mesopotamian Civilization 3500 BCE - 500 BCE Gave birth to the world's first cities, writing system, and complex societies ...

Babylon relies on many very cheap but highly numerous units banding together far less professionally than their Assyrian ...