Between 1914 and 1923, the Ottoman Turks carried out a coordinated campaign of mass killings, deportation and forced starvation of its Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christian minorities in what more than thirty countries, including the United States, France, Germany and Canada, have formally recognised as genocide. Unfortunately, Australia is not one of them.
An Assyrian-American family recently donated a collection of rare books and historical materials to the Assyrian Cultural Foundation (ACF), including a historic Church of the East Takhsa d'Raza--the Order of the Liturgy--which the family believes may be nearly 400 years old.
Canberra -- On Tuesday, 11 August 2026, delegates of the Joint Justice Initiative (JJI) attended the Parliament of Australia to advocate for the federal recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides of 1915.
More than 2,700 years ago, someone in ancient Assyria carefully ground and polished a small piece of rock crystal, leaving it with one flat face and another slightly convex. The object, now known as the Nimrud Lens, can focus light and even provide crude magnification -- properties that have led to a much larger and more controversial question: could the Assyrians have experimented with telescopic...
Gothenburg, Sweden -- Members of the Assyrian community and others interested in Assyrian affairs gathered on 9 August 2026 for a ceremony organized by the Gothenburg branch of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa), in cooperation with the Ashur Banipal Club, to mark Assyrian Martyrs' Day and the 93rd anniversary of the Simmele Massacre.
Archaeologists excavating Hattusa in central Turkey have uncovered a large storage complex dating back roughly 3,800 years to the Assyrian Trade Colonies Period, revealing new evidence about the economic life of the settlement before it became the capital of the Hittite Empire.