There were later Roman incursions into Mesopotamia under Lucius Verus and under Septimius Severus, who set up the Roman provinces of Mesopotamia and the Neo-Assyrian kingdom of …

Assyria was a dependency of Babylonia and later of the Mitanni kingdom during most of the 2nd millennium bce. It emerged as an independent state in the 14th century bce, and in the …

2014年6月30日 · Ashur (also known as Assur) was an Assyrian city located on a plateau above the Tigris River in Mesopotamia (today known as Qalat Sherqat, northern Iraq). The city was …

2017年1月27日 · Assur is first positively attested to in the Ur III Period (2047-1750 BCE) of Mesopotamian history. He is identified as the patron god of the city of Ashur c. 1900 BCE at its …

2019年6月28日 · Ashur (its name was at the same time, the name of a god) was not a particularly large city; it had probably no more than 15,000 inhabitants and was situated south of Nineveh …

During ancient times, lands that now constitute Iraq were known as Mesopotamia (“Land Between the Rivers”), a region whose extensive alluvial plains gave rise to some of the world’s earliest …

2018年8月28日 · The land surrounding the city was known as Mat Assur, meaning ‘the land of the god Assur’, thus symbolizing its divine status. In later times, when the Assyrians moved their …

The Old Assyrian period is marked by the earliest known evidence of the development of a distinct Assyrian culture, separate from that of southern Mesopotamia [7] [8] and was a geopolitically …

Assur was the center of the cult of the god Ashur, who was considered the supreme deity of the Assyrian pantheon. The city's temples, particularly the Ashur Temple, served as important …

The ancient city of Assur was an important emporium and a central place in the trade between Mesopotamia and Anatolia during the nineteenth-eighteenth centuries BC. Its traders exported …