What the world knows about the Assyrian empire, it mostly knows from kings. The palace reliefs and the royal inscriptions that shaped that picture came out of one raised mound inside a city called Nimrud, where Austen Henry Layard put his first trenches in 1845. Around that mound lies a walled town of about 340 hectares, roughly the ground area of New York's Central Park.
Ankara -- The exclusion of Sabro, an Assyrian newspaper published in Merde (Mardin), from a financial support programme for minority newspapers run by Turkey's Press Advertising Agency (BIK) remains unexplained on legal or administrative grounds.
Brussels -- As Syria moves through a precarious political transition, European policymakers, church leaders and Syrian representatives are preparing to gather at the European Parliament next week with a message that goes to the heart of the country's emerging political order: the future of minorities cannot depend on sectarian quotas or political bargains, but on a constitution that guarantees...
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.