Anitli, a charming Assyrian heritage village located about 30 kilometers from Midyat in Turkey's southern Mardin Province, has been named one of the United Nations World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) "Best Tourism Villages 2025.
Armota, Iraq -- The town of Armota, a predominantly Assyrian community in the Koy Sanjaq (Koya) district of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), has been targeted by yet another assault on its historical and religious heritage.
Dayro Zcuro, North and East Syria -- Along the banks of the Euphrates River stretches Deir ez-Zor Province, a region with an ancient history marked by the succession of Mesopotamian and Roman civilizations, and later modern Syrian cultures.
Dyana Dawood is of Assyrian background, and at just four years old she left Mosul with her family, fleeing the violence and instability that had devastated her city. They moved to Jordan, where she discovered football playing with neighborhood kids, often being the only girl among them.
The online dictionaries hosted at assyrianlanguages.org are among the most enduring community projects dedicated to the preservation of Assyrian heritage. Conceived in France by the Association Assyrophile de France (AAF), the association began with the digitization of printed resources and gradually expanded into two major online tools: first the Akkadian--French/English dictionary, and later the...
The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as "one of the most important" archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian Empire comes from the library's 30,000 or so cuneiform tablets. The empire is one of the oldest known civilizations on the planet. Founded sometime during 14th century B.C.E.