assyria

     

Ancient Assyria (20th - 10th c. BC) Aramaeans (14th - 9th c. BC) Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 - 612 BC) Achaemeni Assyria (539 - 330 BC) Osroene (132 BC - 244 AD) Roman Syria (64 BC - 637 AD) Adiabene (15 - 116 AD) Roman Assyria (116 - 118) Asuristan (226 - 651)

Trivia about assyria

  • It was an ancient empire on the upper Tigris River
  • Add 2 letters to a modern Mideast country to get this kingdom once ruled by Sennacherib
  • II Kings recounts the slaughter by an angel of the Lord of 185,000 soldiers of this kingdom to the north of Israel
  • In the 1840s Sir Henry Layard excavated Nineveh, capital of this ancient neighbor of Babylonia
  • Sennacherib, king of this country, made Nineveh his capital & built a magnificent new palace there

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