Word: assyria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt vanquished the rebellious King of Megiddo and his Asiatic allies, after a surprise movement of the Egyptian cavalry through the pass. There, during the World War, General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby of Britain bested the Turks by repeating...
...Curator also made public the acquisition of a square stone foundation box with a long cuneiform inscription of Ashur-nazir-pal II, King of Assyria from 883 to 859 B.C., summarizing his military campaigns...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, sent a message to His Beatitude Joseph Emanuel Thomas II. Patriarch of Babylon, Shepherd of Eastern Roman Catholics who worship under the Chaldean Rite. Would His ' Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed his shiny black pillbox hat, arrived in Manhattan last...
...From 900 to 640 B. C." Professor Blake continued, "Van was the capital of a great kingdom which was the only successful rival of the monarchs of Assyria when that state was at the height of its power. Although the archaeological remains have long been generaly known, they have not been thoroughly studied...
...year an expedition headed by Dr. J. L. Starkey of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve scraps of pottery...