Directory of Assyria Resources

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This category lists sites dedicated to the ancient history of Assyria.

Subcategories

• Assyro-Babylonian Myths

Resources in This Category

• Ashurbanipal

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardanapalus
  Article on the last great king of ancient Assyria also known as Sardanapalus.

• Assur

  http://www.crystalinks.com/assur.html
  A city on the Tigris, originally a colony of Babylonia, and later became the first capital city of Assyria with images.

• Assyria

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria
  An article on the history and the making of the empire.

• Assyria

  http://i-cias.com/e.o/assyria.htm
  An article on the society and economy, administration, culture, and history.

• Assyria

  http://www.livius.org/as-at/assyria/assyria.html
  A general introduction.

• Assyrian Historiography

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6559
  The complete text written by Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead.

• Assyrian King List

  http://www.livius.org/k/kinglist/assyrian.html
  A list of rulers with information.

• Assyrian Kings' List

  http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/kinglist.html
  Names for all periods with notes.

• Assyrians after Assyria

  http://www.nineveh.com/Assyrians%20after%20Assyria.html
  A paper and presentation by Dr. Simo Parpola.

• Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II

  http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Assyria/Inscra01.html
  Inscriptions engraved on black marble, five feet in height, each of its four sides divided into five compartments of sculpture representing the tribute brought to the king by vassal princes.

• Clothing in Ancient Assyria

  http://www.nineveh.com/Clothing%20in%20Ancient%20Assyria.html
  A paper on the dress of the people by Fred Aprim.

• Nineveh

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh
  The history of the great city that lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris.

• People Of Ancient Assyria

  http://www.aina.org/books/poaa/poaa.htm
  The complete text written Jorgen Laessoe, 1963

• The Ancient Conquerors

  http://home.uchicago.edu/~mraltawe/ashur.html
  A dissertation proposal that includes a slide show.

• The Assyrian Kings List

  http://www.aina.org/aol/kinglist
  Table of known leaders.

• The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7096
  The complete text written by E. A. Wallis Budge.

• The Code of the Assura

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1075assyriancode.asp
  Excerpts from ancient laws, c. 1075 B.C.E.

• The New Assyrian Empire

  http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/maptext_n2/assyria.html
  A color map of the region until 612 B.C.

• Tiglath-Pileser

  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14393-tiglath-pileser
  Biography of a king of Assyria from 747 to 727 B.C. by Joseph Jacobs and Ira Maurice Price.

• Tiglath-Pileser III

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiglath-Pileser_III
  A biographical article of a prominent king of Assyria.

• Tiglath-Pileser III - King of Assyria

  http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/leaderstz/g/061109tiglathpileser.htm
  Founder of the second empire (c.774 - 727 B.C.).

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