Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire.

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My grandmother was Assyrian. She hailed from Iraq, spoke modern Aramaic, and prayed like clockwork each morning before preparing breakfast. My grandmother's story seems unremarkable, but to take ...

The Assyrian military's development of a reliable flotation system using inflated goatskin bags demonstrates a remarkable understanding of materials science and tactical warfare. These devices allowed ...

One of the first rules Neil Cross gave his team when making Iris, the new thriller series he created for Sky U.K., was that the lead character should never drive a car with a roof. “If Grace ...

The setting was war-torn northeast Syria. Within the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters was a string of Assyrian Christian farming villages along the Khabur River. These Assyrians had ...