#Assyrian
The Royal Assyrian, Terinos terpander

Widespread from the S of Vietnam to Sumatra & Borneo but most common in the Malaysian peninsula and that's where I took this picture.

8.iv.2023 Bukit Fraser, Malaysia
December 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Assyrians at War: Military Power, Terror, and the First True War Machine

A deeply detailed analysis of Assyrian warfare, examining military organization, siegecraft, psychological terror, logistics, and how Assyria created the first system of total war in history.
The Assyrians at War: Military Power, Terror, and the First True War Machine
A deeply detailed analysis of Assyrian warfare, examining military organization, siegecraft, psychological terror, logistics, and how Assyria created the first system of total war in history.
battlesandwarfare.wordpress.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Thanks for the link! That is indeed a great initiative. Sadly I have no clue about Assyrian. Old or otherwise!
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
the assyrian pazuzu dragonflies of the exorcists inexorable, A.I. cataclysmic evil against evil pandorapandemix is tom golds deep hot alien biosphere writing our entropalypse in atomized oil
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Great question, short answer is that the team was built by Old Assyrian experts, prize administrator included:

www.deeppast.org#our-team
Deep Past Initiative - Ancient Document Digitization Challenge
Join the global challenge to digitize 22,000+ ancient cuneiform tablets. Win prizes while preserving human history through crowdsourcing technology.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In an original contribution to genocide studies, Themistocles Kritikakos examines the enduring legacies of the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides in the late Ottoman Empire (1914–1923).

> amzn.to/4rWgfPM
December 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I studied the primary sources translated from the original Akkadian. NOTHING in the Bible is original material... mostly borrowed from Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, or Persian writings
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold / and his cohort was gleaming in purple and gold / and the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea / when the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
She could have just made it short and sweet:

Patriarchy started when the Assyrian priests overthrew the High Priestess Enheduanna, (daughter of King Sargon) and installed a male priestly power in the temple.

Read the Lamentations of Enheduanna and you'll understand how Patriarchy started.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New-ish Books

Old Assyrian letters involving women (trade networks, private letters, etc — soooo interesting): Cécile Michel, Women of Aššur and Kanesh

Old Babylonian: K. Wagensonner and N. Reid, Letters from Old Babylonian Kish 3/3
December 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Amarna Letters (diplomatic correspondence from Bronze Age between great powers like Egypt and Babylonia, and vassal states): oracc.museum.upenn.edu/aemw/amarna/

Letters b/t Assyrian scholars and kings: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/knpp/co...

Other Assyrian: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/ 2/n
December 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Judith, the Hanukkah heroine, exemplifies the femme fatale archetype. According to legend, she saved Bethulia by seducing and decapitating Assyrian general Holofernes, thus securing her people's safety and her place in history.

🎨 Artemisia Gentileschi's ‘Judith and her Maidservant’, 1618-19.
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So will there be an Assyrian state now?

It has a right to exist!
Assyrians inhabited the area thousands of years ago.
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In related news, George Ishoh, another Assyrian individual from Hasakah in Syria, was reported as a victim of ongoing violence and lawlessness in the region after refusing to pay extortion demands.
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Ayad Mansour Kyriakos Sakkat, a 54-year-old Assyrian American interpreter, was killed in a terrorist attack on U.S. forces in Palmyra, Syria on December 13. The attack resulted in the deaths of two U.S. soldiers and injuries to several others. Sakkat was working as an independent contractor for
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Id be such a good mom id name my daughter Willhelmina Napoleon Sunfish and I will only teach her Assyrian Aramaic and Bayesian inferencing. She could probably just infer the rest
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#Iraq Dec 17 2010 Report UN said at least 1000 Christian families fled Baghdad and Mosul for KRG Another 133 families went to Syria and 109 to Jordan Assyrian Catholic priest in Lebanon said 450 families recently arrived musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/p/1st-pm-mal...
1st PM Maliki Govt Pt 5 (2010)
Musings On Iraq Argument For Maliki Being Iraq’s Next Strongman Musings On Iraq interview with Reuters’ Parker on Maliki’s biography M...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Meaning of #sardanápalo Sardanapalus is somewhat doubtful as a historical figure, although some texts claim that he was an Assyrian king, and also the last rather than the well-documented Ashur-uballit II. But he became famous for the mentions of his debauchery .. sardanápalo
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I’m sure the Ottomans were ready to pull the trigger on massacring their Armenian/Assyrian/Greek minorities regardless, but Nicky speaking of WW1 in crusader terms about liberating Christians from the infidel Saracens probably didn’t help things!
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Long live Assyrian passive aggressiveness!
“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?”

I’ve been left on read too many times.

A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.
December 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Interesting application for #AI in #archaeology. Competition for prize fund to transcribe and translate Assyrian #cuneiform tablet texts. Open till March. 🏺
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
-... Bey merhabalar, I noticed fingerprints on two clay tablettes in "Assyrian Trade Colonies" section of the museum, I guess they're ancient fingerprints (I send pics)
-Yes they probaby belonged to the scribe
-How lovely! Maybe it'd draw more attention if these were mentioned on the info labels
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December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM