Today, we see Assyria in a more complicated and more many sided light. It emerges to us, above all, a country of nations, a multi national empire whose power ... their control of the Assyrian capital ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and ... At this time the Assyrians had carved an empire that stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf ...

(705-681 BCE) and which stretches 12km along the city of Nineveh (Mosul ... of a 3000-year-old structure built during the Assyrian Empire is not only a loss to the Assyrians, but for the Iraqi ...

Today, the Assyrians are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian Empire and one of the earliest civilizations ... The remains of the ancient capital of Assyria, Nineveh, lie next to Mosul in Northern ...