The city of Nimrud, known as Calah in the Bible, became the capital of the neo-Assyrian Empire in 883 B.C., under King Ashurnasirpal II. At the end of the seventh century B.C., the empire ...
His book, entitled 'Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire' will be discussed at the Eden Gardens reception. Hermiz Shahen is going. Eckart Frahm is a professor of Assyriology in ...