Miss Brikha says she chose the name of Ishtar because Ishtar is the symbol ... naseem Sadiq Source: SBS Assyrian Facebook has banned the posting and sharing of news content in Australia.

Each panel depicts a cultic scene involving a procession of statues of the seven principal Assyrian deities—Ashur, Mullissu, Sin, Nabu, Shamash, Adad, and Ishtar—standing atop striding animals.

A semitic peoples indigenous to North Iraq; builders of the great Mesopotamian civilizations; ethnically distinct from Arabs and Jews (the other semitic peoples of the region). Assyrians are ...

Many Assyrians use the names of ancient Assyrian kings, queens, gods, goddesses, and cities. For males, names such as Ashur, Sargon, Nimrod, Ashurbanipal, and Sankheeru are common. For females, names ...

11th-7th centuries B.C. A period of Assyrian rule is ended by the Chaldeans ... the dazzling blue Ishtar Gate, now reconstructed and on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...

President of Assyrian Aid Society and event’s organiser June Ishtar Jako was relieved that the concert went as planned and audience had a wonderful and entertaining time. Mrs Jako said the AAS ...

Sennacherib was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705 BCE to his own death in 681 BCE. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is one of ...

In Total War: Pharaoh's Dynasties update, multiple new major factions are playable. Among them, Assyrian "King of the ...

Built during the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar II, the Ishtar Gate was a tribute to Goddess Ishtar. A replica of this gateway ...

Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel The Assyrian Empire’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE is mentioned in the Bible, in Assyrian records and later, by ancient historians such as ...

Lehmann, Gunnar 2021. The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest: Imperial Domination and Its Consequences. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Vol. 9, Issue. 3, p. 299.