This chapter provides a historical sketch of the Neo‐Assyrian period, the era that saw the
slow rise of the Assyrian empire as well as its much faster eventual fall. From the late ninth to�…

In 612 BC, after a prolonged civil war, Assyria's two former vassals, the Babylonians and the
Medes, conquered and destroyed Nineveh, the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The�…

In its beginning stages, the rise of the Middle Assyrian kingdom was closely linked to the fate
of the Mittanian state. The era of Assur‐uballit, who was the first ruler of Ashur to use the�…

The Neo-Assyrian state, whose history spans the ninth through the seventh centuries BC,
represented in size and complexity an unprecedented political phenomenon in the ancient�…

The documentary evidence published so far forme a sound basis for the study of the
chronology of the late Assyrian empire. The chronological data of the Harran inscription�…

The Neo-Assyrian empire (c. 900-612) has bequeathed us some of the most magnificent
archaeological and textual remains known from the Ancient Near East. That evidence�…

Although the traditional habit has been to refer to the Sargonid empire, it is now admitted
that the latter was really set up by Tiglath-pileser III, the first sovereign who succeeded in�…

In numerous ambitious expeditions Shalmaneser III of Assyria (859-824) lay the foundation
of the subsequent remarkable military advance to the West of the Neo-Assyrian empire�…

The first attestations of Assyria in classical sources appear only after the downfall of the Neo‐
Assyrian Empire. In this context, Ctesias's work became a major source. Ctesias created an�…

The Assyrian thrust to the west in the 9th century BCE marked a new political and military
situation in the history of the southern Anatolian and Syro-Palestinian kingdoms. This whole�…