https://assyrian-history.com Ancient empire. Living people. en-gb Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-christianity-churches-liturgy-identity https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-christianity-churches-liturgy-identity Assyrians participate in several Syriac Christian traditions, but denomination and ethnicity overlap without being interchangeable. This guide maps the institutions without assigning anyone an identity. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Identity https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrians-modern-iraq-citizenship-nineveh-plains https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrians-modern-iraq-citizenship-nineveh-plains Assyrians have been citizens, writers, workers, organisers and political actors in modern Iraq while facing massacres, displacement and persistent debates over representation and security. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Modern history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-print-literature-modern-awakening https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-print-literature-modern-awakening Printing, vernacular writing, newspapers and poetry created new ways for Assyrians to debate language, reform and identity across the Middle East and diaspora. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Culture https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-music-dance-cultural-memory https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-music-dance-cultural-memory At weddings, festivals, churches, concerts and online, Assyrian music and dance turn language and memory into shared practice while changing across regions and generations. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Culture https://assyrian-history.com/articles/old-assyrian-trade-network https://assyrian-history.com/articles/old-assyrian-trade-network Before Assyria was an empire, merchant families from Ashur built a long-distance commercial network linking Mesopotamia and Anatolia through credit, caravans and household enterprise. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ancient history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/middle-assyrian-empire https://assyrian-history.com/articles/middle-assyrian-empire Between the merchant age and the famous Neo-Assyrian Empire, Middle Assyrian rulers built a territorial state with provinces, archives, laws and ambitious royal cities. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ancient history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/how-assyria-governed-empire https://assyrian-history.com/articles/how-assyria-governed-empire Governors, vassals, relay roads, archives, taxation and forced resettlement connected the Neo-Assyrian court to an empire that could never be ruled by conquest alone. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explained https://assyrian-history.com/articles/religion-in-ancient-assyria https://assyrian-history.com/articles/religion-in-ancient-assyria The god Aššur anchored Assyrian kingship, but ancient religion included many deities, temples, household protections and scholarly systems of divination that changed across centuries. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ancient history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/who-are-the-assyrians https://assyrian-history.com/articles/who-are-the-assyrians Assyrians are a living people rooted in northern Mesopotamia, with ancient historical connections, Neo-Aramaic and Syriac traditions, and a global diaspora. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explained https://assyrian-history.com/articles/do-assyrians-still-exist-today https://assyrian-history.com/articles/do-assyrians-still-exist-today Yes. Assyrians live in Middle Eastern homelands and a global diaspora, maintaining varied identities, institutions, languages and cultural traditions. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Modern history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/ancient-and-modern-assyrians-evidence https://assyrian-history.com/articles/ancient-and-modern-assyrians-evidence Evidence supports survival and layered continuity after the empire, but not an unchanged homogeneous nation; scholars differ over how to describe the connection. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Identity https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-chaldean-syriac-aramean-names https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-chaldean-syriac-aramean-names These names can describe churches, languages, ethnic identities or administrative categories; their meanings overlap, but people do not all relate them in the same way. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Identity https://assyrian-history.com/articles/what-language-did-assyrians-speak https://assyrian-history.com/articles/what-language-did-assyrians-speak Ancient Assyrians used Akkadian in cuneiform; Aramaic spread during the empire, Classical Syriac became a great literary language, and diverse Neo-Aramaic varieties continue today. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Language https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-genocide-sayfo https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-genocide-sayfo Sayfo names the mass killing, expulsion, starvation, abduction and destruction suffered by Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac/Aramean Christians during the First World War. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Modern history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-diaspora https://assyrian-history.com/articles/assyrian-diaspora The Assyrian diaspora emerged through genocide, refugee flight, labour migration, family reunification and recent wars—and remains connected to Middle Eastern homelands. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Modern history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/ancient-assyria-complete-timeline https://assyrian-history.com/articles/ancient-assyria-complete-timeline Follow Assyria from the city of Ashur and its merchant networks to a territorial empire, the fall of Nineveh, and life after the kings. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ancient history https://assyrian-history.com/articles/where-was-assyria https://assyrian-history.com/articles/where-was-assyria Assyria’s core lay along the Tigris in present-day northern Iraq; its imperial frontiers changed radically and once stretched far beyond that homeland. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Places https://assyrian-history.com/articles/how-assyrian-empire-rose-and-fell https://assyrian-history.com/articles/how-assyrian-empire-rose-and-fell Assyria rose through centuries of institutional development, military recovery and provincial expansion; it fell to Babylonian and Median armies amid internal strain. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explained https://assyrian-history.com/articles/nineveh https://assyrian-history.com/articles/nineveh Nineveh was an ancient sacred city before Sennacherib made it an imperial capital; its fall in 612 BCE ended a court, not the life of the site forever. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Places https://assyrian-history.com/articles/ashurbanipal-library https://assyrian-history.com/articles/ashurbanipal-library More than 30,000 tablets and fragments from Nineveh preserve literature and scholarship—but they did not form one modern library or 30,000 separate books. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ancient history