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![Babylonia under Assyrian Siege](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5478.jpg?v=1713944289)
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Babylonia under Assyrian Siege
Date palms indicate that the city, most of which were on an adjacent slab, was probably Babylonia. It stood by a river or a canal. An Assyrian soldier holds a large body shield and two archers take aim. Assyrian, reign of Tiglath-pileser...
![Assyrian Deportation of People from Southern Iraq](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5480.jpg?v=1599420603)
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Assyrian Deportation of People from Southern Iraq
This is one of a series of panels that showed Tiglath-pileser III's military campaigns in southern Iraq. On the left is a captured town, with a siege engine beside the gate. In the center, Assyrian clerks with tablet and scroll record details...
![Review of Arab Prisoners, Assyrian Relief](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5468.jpg?v=1618655419)
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Review of Arab Prisoners, Assyrian Relief
This is part of a series of reliefs showing Arab prisoners brought before the Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III (reigned 744-727 BCE). The hands of two women prisoners are visible on the extreme right. The prisoners are led by an Assyrian...
![Surrender of Horseman, Assyrian Relief](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5473.jpg?v=1618655433)
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Surrender of Horseman, Assyrian Relief
This scene, with a fleeing enemy horseman turning to appeal to his Assyrian pursuers, is both a realistic battlefield event and a symbolic humiliation of a defeated enemy. Assyrian, reign of Tiglath-pileser III, about 728 BCE. From the Central...
![Assyrian Warriors Relief](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2045.jpg?v=1618633806)
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Assyrian Warriors Relief
These 1-meter high basalt reliefs depict Assyrian warriors of different ranks in procession with a royal chariot led by the commander in chief of the Assyrian army. These reliefs were acquired and gathered during the years 1848, 1946, 1948...
![Kaskians](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1071.png?v=1696375803)
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Kaskians
The Kaska or Kaskians were a tribe of the Pontus, northern Anatolia (today's Turkey), around the Kizil Irmak river mouth, bordering on and constantly harrasing the Hittite empire. That area is mostly mountainous in nature, and there the Kaska...
![Mesopotamian Effects on Israel During the Iron Age](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/285.png?v=1722002525)
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Mesopotamian Effects on Israel During the Iron Age
The Iron Age in the traditional Ancient Near Eastern chronology ranges from somewhere around 1200 BCE to 333 BCE. It begins from the era when it was first thought iron came to be used up to the ascendency of Alexander the Great as the major...
![A Short History of Assyria and the Neo-Assyrian Empire](/uploads/kraked/6/6-2728_ci_preview.jpg)
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A Short History of Assyria and the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Assyria has a long history, beginning in northern Mesopotamia and then expanding during the Neo-Assyrian Empire from Mesopotamia through Asia Minor, and down through Egypt. The empire began in the city of Ashur and went through many different...
![Deported people from the city of Astartu](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5471.jpg?v=1618711204)
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Deported people from the city of Astartu
This detail depicts the deportation of the inhabitants of the city of Astartu (in modern-day Jordan Kingdom). The deported people are holding their personal belongings and are led by an Assyrian solider. The city was captured by the Assyrian...
![Neo-Assyrian Empire c. 912 - 612 BCE](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13557.png?v=1618612214)
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Neo-Assyrian Empire c. 912 - 612 BCE
Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire c. 912 - 612 BCE, showing expansion by Shalmeneser III (r. c. 859 - 824 BCE), Tiglath-Pileser III (r. c. 745 - 727 BCE), Sargon II (r. c. 722 - 705 BCE), Sennacherib (r. c. 705 - 681 BCE), and Ashurbanipal (r...