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From Nineveh to Mosul, the wrecked relics under IS control In this image made from a video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on February 26, 2015, a militant topples an ancient artifact in the Nineveh Museum in Mosul, Iraq. (AP, File) Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant stand before an Assyrian statue before destroying it.
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ISIS overtakes Iraq's largest Christian city When ISIS took over Mosul, many residents from there had fled to Qaraqosh. In Mosul, ISIS issued an ultimatum to Christians living there: Convert to Islam, pay a fine or face death by the sword.. Three other nearby villages were also attacked overnight and Thursday, local police officials told CNN.
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Lost city Rediscovered. 1  Karakorum – Capital of Genghis Khan. 2  Loulan – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route. 3  Mangazeya, Siberia. 4  Niya – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route. 5  Old Urgench – capital of Khwarezm. 6  Otrar – City located along the Silk Road, important in the history of Central Asia.
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The Art and Archaeology of Nineveh by Michael J. Chan Even though Nineveh did not take “three days to cross” (Jonah 3:3), the famous Assyrian capital was a remarkable place. At its peak in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., it boasted temples, sophisticated irrigation systems, a game reserve, lush gardens, and imposing royal buildings. The remains of ancient Nineveh are situated along the eastern bank of the Tigris River across from modern day Mosul in northern Iraq.
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- This painted sketch is of the mighty Assyrian king Sennacherib relief which was discovered on the walls of his palace in Khorsabad, near the ruins of ancient Nineveh.
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- The ruins of its capital, Nineveh, are just across the Tigris River from modern-day Mosul, Iraq. The biblical Hebrew name for Assyria is Asshur, whereas the biblical name for Syria is Aram, referring the land around Damascus, far to the southwest of Assyria.
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- Unlike these groups, Assyrians are Christians and have their own language (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic). The heart of the Assyrian empire was located in the northern part of ancient Mesopotamia,present day northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, and northwestern Iran.imply put, the modern-day Assyrians are Semitic people, and the direct descendants of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian people, including their predecessors the Akkadians and Sumerians, and have a history spanning over 6760 years.
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Gilgamesh The Flood Tablet, 11th cuneiform tablet in a series relating the Gilgamesh epic, from Nineveh, 7th …© Photos.com/Jupiterimages. The fullest extant text of the Gilgamesh epic is on 12 incomplete Akkadian-language tablets found at Nineveh in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (reigned 668–627 bce). The gaps that occur in the tablets have been partly filled by various fragments found elsewhere in Mesopotamia and Anatolia.
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Openning Salvo The story of what happened to the ancient Assyrians after the fall of their empire in 612 B.C. Must take into account the Aramean people of Aram, modern-day Syria, and the pervasive influence of their Aramaic language and its adoption by the Assyrians in place of their own, Akkadian, language. Arameans:
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Nineveh The excavation reports are in progress. Today, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus Prophet Jonah, and the remains of the city walls (about 12 kilometres (7 mi) in circumference). The Neo-Assyrian levels of Kouyunjik have been extensively explored.
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Iraq's Christians persecuted by ISIS It's not blaming, but that's the reality. This is not what you came for in 2003. The 4,000 sacrifices of the American soldiers was not meant to come to this day. Christianity in Iraq was born in the towns and villages of the Nineveh Plains, like this one, called Tel Isqof, which lies less than 20 miles north of Mosul.
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- Welcome to the home of the indigenous Aramaic-speaking Christian Assyrians of the Middle East. The Assyrians of today are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian people, one of the earliest civilizations emerging in the Middle East, and have a history spanning over 6760 years. Assyrians are not Arabian or Arabs, we are not Kurdish, our religion is not Islam.
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From Nineveh to Mosul, the wrecked relics under IS control Here is a series of images of ancient heritage sites currently under Islamic State group control. 1  In this image from a from video posted on a social media account affiliated with the Islamic State group on February 26, 2015, militants attack ancient artifacts with sledgehammers in the Nineveh Museum in Mosul, Iraq.
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Tal Afar Tal Afar. Tal Afar (Turkish: Telafer), pronounced /ta.la.fer/ and also spelt Tal'Afar, Tall Afar, Tell Afar or Tel Afar, is a city and district in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq, 63 km west of Mosul, 52 km east of Sinjar and 200 km north west of Kirkuk.
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- A Pyongyang rally, and Mosul devastation The 20 photographs of the week. Holy Week, a mass rally in Pyongyang, the ongoing destruction in Mosul and Sergio Garcia winning the Masters – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists. The 20 photographs of the week.
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US military uses Apache helicopter gunships for first time against ISIS in Iraq There was no immediate word how many ISIS fighters were killed in the U.S. strike. The U.S. attack happened near the Iraqi city of Qayyarah, roughly 50 miles south of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and an ISIS stronghold where the majority of ISIS fighters reside inside Iraq, according to defense officials. Mosul fell to ISIS two years ago in June 2014.
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Nineveh And the U.S. is implicated too, as Al Gharawi assumed command in Nineveh before the U.S. withdrew from Iraq. The Monster of Mosul: How a Sadistic General Helped ISIS Win Andrew Slater June 18, 2014. The town of Mosul is mentioned in the Bible, where it is known as Nineveh.
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Visiting the ancient city of Babylon The ancient city lies within modern-day city of Hillah, the center of Babel Governorate, Iraq, about 83 kilometers south of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital city. After the US-led invasion in 2003, the American and Polish armies established a military base within the ancient city.
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ISIS bulldozes ruins of ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraqi ministry says Nimrud and nearby Nineveh are the sites where two Assyrian kings, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.) and Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), recorded successful military campaigns on the walls of their palaces, according to the World Monuments Fund, a group dedicated to saving the world's most treasured places.
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Mosul Tragedy as militants bomb 2,700-year-old Nineveh Wall in Iraq. Militants of the Islamic State have destroyed a large portion of the ancient Nineveh wall in Mosul, which dates back some 2,700 years. The tragic loss adds to a series of archaeological, historical,... Related Ancient Origins Articles.
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- Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mostafavi Moosavi Khomeini (Persian: روح‌اللّه مصطفوی موسوی خمینی, Persian pronunciation: , 22 September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.
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ISIS overtakes Iraq's largest Christian city Qaraqosh is a historic Assyrian town of 50,000 people, approximately 20 miles southeast of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, where ISIS also has control.
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- Baghdad eclipsed Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian Empire, which was located some 30 km (19 mi) to the southeast. Today, all that remains of Ctesiphon is the shrine town of Salman Pak, just to the south of Greater Baghdad.Ctesiphon itself had replaced and absorbed Seleucia, the first capital of the Seleucid Empire.he Al-Kādhimiya Mosque is a shrine that is located in the Kādhimayn suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. It contains the tombs of the seventh Twelver Shīa Imām Musa al-Kadhim and the ninth Twelver Shīa Imām Muhammad at-Taqī al-Jawād.
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- FeaturesMiddle East. Mosul's civilian deaths: How the US destroyed Iraq. Successive US administrations have and always will be oblivious to the effect that they have had in Iraq. 06 Apr 2017 07:49 GMT | Battle for Mosul, Middle East, Iraq, Barack Obama, US & Canada.
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What was the Ancient Assyrian Capital? Best Answer: Assyria was a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur. Calah is one of the earliest capitals of the Assyrian Empire, and its last was Nineveh. Nineveh is located on the east bank of the Tigris river near the base of the Kurdish mountains.