I hope it's not considered inappropriate to mention the Fall of Civilizations podcast ep about Assyria here. I'm not affiliated. I just love history and this podcast is deeply researched and highly entertaining to a history nerd.
Tangentially but somewhat interestingly, I was reading the other day that the field of "Assyriology" goes all the way up to the Islamic conquest, about a thousand years after the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire mentioned above.
It seems they knew there were hundreds of sites to be inundated and there was an effort to investigate as many as they could before the damn was built https://www.jstor.org/stable/25182504
I hope it's not considered inappropriate to mention the Fall of Civilizations podcast ep about Assyria here. I'm not affiliated. I just love history and this podcast is deeply researched and highly entertaining to a history nerd.
https://soundcloud.com/fallofcivilizations/13-the-assyrians-...
It's an incredible podcast. A great combination of research, history, and nostalgia. The versions with accompanying video on YouTube are good too.
Link to that episode on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAphcaVJIs
They are thought to be more than 2,300 years old, likely from the Hellenistic period, when Iraq was under the rule of the Seleucid empire.
So similar territory and genetic people but well after the Assyrians.
(rough dates from wikipedia)expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC
Tangentially but somewhat interestingly, I was reading the other day that the field of "Assyriology" goes all the way up to the Islamic conquest, about a thousand years after the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire mentioned above.
It might be inappropriate to advertise it without explaining why it's relevant to the subject..
The Assyrians were an ancient civilization in the area about the same time...
Was this site known before the Mosul dam was built? It's only been about 40 years.
It seems they knew there were hundreds of sites to be inundated and there was an effort to investigate as many as they could before the damn was built https://www.jstor.org/stable/25182504
Related:
How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236473