The Assyrians, Master of war:

[Rumtaya]

The Assyrians, Master of war:


The Assyrians, a semitic people, were settled in the area of the upper river Tigris since the time when, with the Sumerians, the history of civilization had begun. They had occasionally been defeated by the Sumerians and the Akkades, but were never conquered, and in the XIV.th century B.C., were yhe only strong and well organized nation in Mesopotamia.


From their towns, Khorsabad, Nineveh, Nimrud, and Assur, warlike and invincible armies moved down to conquer the old cities of the plain, vegetating under the Cassites. This was the beginning of an empire that, during a few merciless expansionism, extended from the Tigris to the Nile, to later suddenly collapse.

The city of Nineveh had a glorious history, it was the thrid Assyrian capital after Assur and Nimrud, and its position in the centre of the original Assyrian lands between the rivers Tigris and Zab gave it an added administrative and religious importance. But it had been a cultural settlement since long before, right through Sumerian and Babylonian periods. In fact the name of Nineveh is of Sumerian origin.
Assurnasirpal II's Palace

Nineveh was ruled by a number of great Assyrian Kings, such as Sargon II (721 - 705 B.C) before he moved to Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad), succeeded by his son Sennacherib (705 - 681 B.C) who abandoned his father's new capital and went back to Nineveh, and Esarhaddon (681 - 669) and Assur-bani-pal (619 - 626), all of whom enlarged and built up the city and made it the centre of the civilized world of their time.
Sennacherib brought water to it in an 80 km long canal from river Gomel in the Bafian mountains, built a dam for water regulation the remains of which are still visible somewhere near the eastern wall, and filled the city and its environs with gardens and orchards to which he brought some rare trees.

There were 15 gates each called after an Assyrian god. The two most prominent mounds of ruins are Koyunjuk and Nabi Younis (Profet Jonah). King Esarhaddon had once built a palace on this very hill.
On Koyunjuk hill are the remins of the most important palaces of the period: Sennacherib's palace, with 71 chambers and 27 entrances, embellished with winged bulls and lions. The walls had long series of bas-reliefs most of which were taken!! to the British Museum, as they were dug up by quite unscientifically by european excavators in the middle of the last century, when Iraq was still under Ottoman domination. Nebuchadnezzar's southern palace

Assurbanipal left us some even more magnificent bas-reliefs and library with thousands of clay tablets (24,000) which he had collected from various cities and which preserved for us much of the lore and knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia.

Nimrud:


The second capital of Assyria had been a well-settled place for a thousand years before it was built as centre of his kingdom by Shalmaneser I (1273 - 1244 B.C.). A famous king of Nimrud was Assur-nasir-pal II (883 - 859), and so was his son Shalmaneser III (858 - 824) who constructed its Ziggurat together with a temple next to it.

Nimrud
Laying as it dose on the east bank of the Tigris, 37 km to the south-east of Mosul, the city has four.side wall measuring in all 8 kms, and several bulidings, in the south.western and south-eastern corners, raised on mud-brick platforms as much as fourty feet high above river-level. Some of the buildings are: the Temple of Ninurta, the north-western and the south-western palaces, Sargon's Palace, and others - notably the ziggurat which looks rather like a conical hill, the remains of it rising to a height of 17 meters. It lies in the north-western corner of the city. It originally had a square base, with most probably a spiral ramp like that of Samarra's mulwiya minaret, leading to its upper levels.

Assurnasirpal II's Palace, known as the north-western palace, has an area of 200x130 meters, and consists of administration, royal reception a couple of doorways, between human-headed bulls or lions with the wings of a hawk. These huge sculptures were meant to be the guardians of the city. Some beautiful bas-relief slabs are still on the site, though most of them were taken away by foreign excavators. Most striking is the throne room, measuring 45.5x10.5 meters. It was here that a large number of exquisite ivory carvings were found, such as the so-called "Mona Lisa of Nimrud" and the piece showing a lioness mauling an Ethiopian, which is gilded and set with lapis-lazuli and agate.

[Diri]

Is this from AINA?

[Piling]

pfff I am translating now in english a paper about Ashur (the city) and when I read the forum to rest my mind I fall in your post ! I come bach to Ashur, then...

[Rumtaya]

Is this from AINA?

WHY MANY WHY U ASKING THAT? is there any anti kurdish propaganda its just about Assyrian History what is so wrong with it????

pfff I am translating now in english a paper about Ashur (the city) and when I read the forum to rest my mind I fall in your post ! I come bach to Ashur, then...

helloooooo could someone tell me please what you guys have against it? There is no word bad about kurds its just about Assyrian History.

or ist Nineveh,Nimrud,Ashur and Khorsabad kurdish Cities?




here the link: http://home.tiscali.dk/8x036176/assrfoto.htm

[Diri]

Rumtaya... Stop being so paranoid... I just asked you where it is from... And Piling was only making a half-way joke - because she was annoyed that everywhere she turns there is Assyria - since she is working on translating a paper on Assyrians - and took a break - only to find this article about Assyrians AGAIN... LOL


See? Now... SOURCE... Thanks!

[Rumtaya]

Rumtaya... Stop being so paranoid... I just asked you where it is from... And Piling was only making a half-way joke - because she was annoyed that everywhere she turns there is Assyria - since she is working on translating a paper on Assyrians - and took a break - only to find this article about Assyrians AGAIN... LOL


See? Now... SOURCE... Thanks!

Is ok my friend my mistake i did understand it wrong but it was to me like what is that for a propaganda.

Pilling is tranclating a paper of Ashur look can she Akkadian??

[Piling]

Pilling is tranclating a paper of Ashur look can she Akkadian??

A paper ABOUT Ashur's history, lol, from french to English, in a Assyrian site (for I have Assyrian friends, you know, and I even help them sometime )

[Rumtaya]

paper ABOUT Ashur's history, lol, from french to English, in a Assyrian site (for I have Assyrian friends, you know, and I even help them sometime )

Oh i see thats cool what is it about?? And very kind from you that you help other people I just can say like you will do to people so people will do for you

[Piling]

It is a site about ancient history, syriac culture, aramean language, syriac philosophers, historians, etc. The name is Qanya (the pen in Syriac)

http://sanate.free.fr/anglais/home-en.htm

[Rumtaya]

It is a site about ancient history, syriac culture, aramean language, syriac philosophers, historians, etc. The name is Qanya (the pen in Syriac)

http://sanate.free.fr/anglais/home-en.htm

I just had a look at the site later ill go deeper into it. Thanks.

Qanya lool never heard for it that we use it for pen.
it might be the western dialekt word for pen.

[Diri]

Sounds like Arabic for pen... "Qalam"...

[Rumtaya]

Sounds like Arabic for pen... "Qalam".

Yeap well you know semetic languages. But yes i just know the word Qalama with an "a".

thats mostly Assyrians arab leave some letters.

like if they say night they say lel we say lela and our western dialekt lelo.

but syriac is near to hebrew then to arabic

[Piling]

I don't think that it is a Western language, the man is from Sanate, near to Zaxo. But he is very good in ancient and medieval syriac, he worked on classical Syriac literature : qanya is not a "modern" pen but something like a pen quill.

And qelem was used in ancient Mesopotamia, in Sumrian and Akkadian time. After they have given the word to all the ME. It was a reed writing on clay tablets originally.