Chaldean Town Housing Project May Move Out of City
By Sherri Welch
A $10 million-plus permanent housing project envisioned for Detroit's Chaldean Town neighborhood may instead be headed for Madison Heights.
Business is Going Native Again
By Andrew Hill
Rare Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed in Israel's Negev Desert
An ornate mosaic floor from a Byzantine monastery has been found in Israel's northern Negev desert. Colourful birds, leaves and floral motifs adorn the Byzantine mosaic and inscriptions in both Greek and Syriac, helped archaeologists date the mosaics to the 6th century AD.
British Museum Will Not Bid for Fragment of Assyrian Stele
By Martin Bailey
The lower part of an Assyrian royal stele is due to be sold at Bonhams in London on 3 April, with an estimate of £600,000 to £800,000. The upper section belongs to the British Museum, but The Art Newspaper understands that the museum is unlikely to try to acquire the work to reassemble the monument.
The Oldest Song in the World
By Robert Fink
For fifteen years Prof. Anne Draffkorn Kilmer puzzled over clay tablets relating to music including some excavated in Syria by French archaeologists in the early '50s.
Dennis Earl Elementary School Celebrates Assyrian New Year
By Elizabeth Arakelian
Turlock, California -- While Assyrians may not have a country, they do have a close-knit community to call home in Turlock. Often mistaken as Syrians, Assyrians are not from Syria but rather ancient Mesopotamia.