Word: assyrian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...significance of Iraq’s ancient civilizations—Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian—extends beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition...
...Museum on Divinity Ave. displays tablets and jewelry from the ancient city of Nuzi. Excavated in a series of Harvard-sponsored expeditions in the late 1920s, the artifacts (which include a set of civil lawsuits inscribed in cuneiform) record the culture of the Nuzi civilization, which fell to its Assyrian and Babylonian neighbors in the thirteenth century B.C.E...
...tired of complaining to officials about being stopped here, and since my visitor seemed to understand some English, I asked about Nineveh - the ruins of the great Assyrian city, site of the world's first library, which lay a few miles down the road. I wondered whether it too was under fire from U.S. air power or Iraqi artillery - and I also wondered whether anybody cared...
...chart that accompanied your article on the scapegoating of Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. [BACKLASH, Oct. 1], you referred to Assyrians as Arab Americans. Assyrians are Christians who were originally from the land of the Tigris and Euphrates, where Iraq is today. The Assyrian people are not Arabs. Readers can find out more about us at www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm ATORINA ZOMAYA Skokie...
Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Judith's defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...