Old Assyrian Empire which included the power to detain people and confiscate property. At the beginning of the reign of an Assyrian king, the limmu, an appointed royal official, would preside over the New Year festival at the capital city. The eponym dating system was a calendar system for Assyria, for a period of over one thousand years. Every year was associated with the name, an eponym, of the limmu, the individual holding office. The dating system is thought to have originated in the ancient city of Assur, and remained the official dating system in Assyria until the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Acheron Empire Acheron Empire The Acheron Empire is a historical kingdom found within the world of Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age. It was first mentioned in the Conan the Barbarian novel "The Hour of the Dragon", as an ancient realm ruled by sorcerers which collapsed before the timespan of the Conan stories. The name comes from Acheron, a river of the underworld in Greek mythology. Acheron was first mentioned in Robert E. Howard's novel "The Hour of the Dragon", as an ancient empire in the history of the setting. It was not mentioned in his earlier essay "The Hyborian Age", which outlined