He breached the Assyrian siege by digging his famous water tunnel under the city.
Artifacts at this location have dated back to the Assyrian period, almost 3, 000 years ago.
Assyrian King Sennacherib, who destroyed the Kingdom of Israel and deported the ten tribes, went home empty-handed.
The much smaller Assyrian and Turkmen communities of Iraq are organising themselves politically in the post-Saddam era.
An estimated two-thirds of Iraq's Christians are Catholics of the Chaldean church and the smaller Assyrian Catholic church.
Nimrud was a city in the Assyrian kingdom, which flourished between 900-612 B.
Julia Kristeva is sleeping and her calm face seems an Assyrian mask until, with a very slight wince of discomfort, she wakes.
The traditional liturgical language of both Assyrian and Chaldean Churches is Syriac - a derivative of Aramaic, the language thought to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples.
As with many others, ethnic and personal ties (he is an Assyrian Christian) already determine whom he will choose among the swarm of parties and coalitions on the ballot.
The Assyrian Church - the Ancient Church of the East, also sometimes referred to as the Nestorian Church - traces its roots back to 2nd Century Mesopotamia and is not Catholic.
Business played no different or larger a part in the economies of the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires than it had in the Sumerian and Egyptian societies that were the first civilizations 2, 000 years earlier.
As part of the Assyrian conquest, the Temple in Jerusalem, the centerpiece of Jewish worship, was turned into a Greek temple where Jews were further humiliated and forced to eat pig meat and worship Greek idols.
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