Fasting is abstaining from food, from certain types of food, or from both food and water. There are several reasons why ...

In the First Reading, Nineveh is described as an “awesomely great city” (v 3) not just for its enormous size and power, but for its enormous sins. The Assyrians had destroyed the northern kingdom of ...

"is that our excavations inside of one of the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh uncovered sculptures of King Sennacherib, a very important ruler of ancient Syria. These were surprised to ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...