Some 5,000 Assyrians from Turkey and around the world gathered at the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery in southeastern Turkey's Mardin province for the annual Shahro celebration, a religious tradition dating back about 1,300 years.
A project from the University of Udine combines drones, magnetic sensors, and surface surveys to map for the first time the vast lower city of the ancient metropolis, where the non-elite population lived. For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud, one of the capitals of the Assyrian Empire in present-day northern Iraq, focused their attention on the acropolis mound.
Botkyrka, Sweden -- Sweden has opened its first elderly-care unit with a Assyrian-language profile, giving members of the country's long-established Assyrian community the opportunity to receive care from staff able to communicate in their mother tongue. The unit at Tornet Care and Nursing Home in Norsborg, in Botkyrka Municipality south of Stockholm, was inaugurated on Thursday, 27 August.
This August the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli marked a remarkable milestone: 100 years since its official establishment in 1926. Known to Assyrians as Beth Zalin, Qamishli was not an ancient city that gradually expanded over centuries.
In the early 20th century, Assyrian families from the Middle East, Canada and the East Coast settled in Turlock to make new lives for themselves. As they found jobs, worked the land and developed a distinct ethnic identity, they also formed places of worship. One of these places of worship, St. John's Assyrian Presbyterian Church, is celebrating its 100th anniversary Saturday, Aug. 29.
News has reached the Presbyterian Historical Society that the Bancroft Library team at the University of California, Berkeley, has completed the digitization of the original materials that make up the "Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home." traveling exhibit.