Who were the Assyrians?

After the discovery of ancient artifacts, thousands of years of nations and civilizations have been explored and experts have been able to use their knowledge and tools of modern times to understand the political, social conditions, lifestyles and ways of their times. Estimated and speculated about history, one of which is the Assyrian civilization.

According to archaeologists, Assyria dates back to about 2,000 years before Christ. It was a civilization flourishing in the middle of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in northern Iraq, which the Assyrian rulers of the time celebrated as a great empire.

When Assyria's heyday came, it spread to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia, and Babylon. According to experts, this civilization had made the city of Assyria its center and this Assyrian Empire later became famous. History shows that this civilization was very fertile and familiar with civilization. According to their religious beliefs, the Assyrians also built temples and other buildings.

After the Assyrian king Paul's death, the empire fell into disrepair, and it is said that the Babylonians expelled them from Nineveh, seized it, and then destroyed the Assyrian Empire.

Experts, with the help of antiquities and artifacts, learned that the Assyrians were the fathers of science and art. These include cave walls, pictures of various animals, fighters and objects on the rocks, sculptures, etc. The ruins of this civilization show that at that time libraries were also built at the behest of the king of Assyria, which contained books on religion, history, geography and other subjects.

Libraries thousands of years ago did not have paper books, but scholars and able-bodied people at that time stored their research, observations and experiments in pictures on large plates from clay. On these tablets or tablets were stored various information from these lines with symbols, shapes of different bodies and gestures like in the ancient Sumerian period, which had the status of words and language like today and can be understood and read. Were

(Selection from Ancient History and Antiquities)

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