How did a shell from a pearl oyster native to the Indo-Pacific make its way to the Land of Israel 2,600 years ago? A tiny, iridescent stamp seal found at the Tel Hadid archaeological site in central Israel gives some clues into far-flung trade networks and offers a unique glimpse into life in the years after the ancient Kingdom of Israel was overtaken by the Assyrian Empire 2,600 years ago,...
Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Erbil in Iraq appealed to Chaldean Patriarch Paul III Nona to stand with Ankawa -- a district of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and home to the largest Christian community in the country -- and to be the voice of the people there before decision-makers so that its residents may regain their right to have a say in the...
Tur Abdin, Turkey -- During landscaping work in the vicinity of the village of Eshtrako (Turkish: Ortaca), inscriptions in Assyrian were discovered. The inscriptions are carved into stone and believed to belong to an ancient church, Gazete Sabro reports.
Kafno (or "famine" in the Syriac language) refers to the campaign of starvation imposed by Ottoman authorities on Mount Lebanon, the historic heartland of the Maronites and other Lebanese Christians, between 1915 and 1918. This deadly starvation campaign targeting Christians across Mount Lebanon occurred simultaneously with the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian genocides in Ottoman Turkey.
For much of the twentieth century, ancient Assyria occupied a distinctive place in Soviet historical writing. It became a carefully constructed narrative, a lens through which historians explained trade, war, social change, state formation, and imperial collapse.
Södertälje, Sweden -- Just days before Sayfo Remembrance Day, annually on 15 June, the Södertälje Municipality surprised the large Assyrian community of the Swedish city. The municipality cancelled plans to build a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Sayfo Genocide 1915, despite having originally approved the project in 2018.