alsetmusic 3 hours ago

I hope it's not considered inappropriate to mention the Fall of Civilizations podcast ep about Assyria here. I'm not affiliated. I just love history and this podcast is deeply researched and highly entertaining to a history nerd.

https://soundcloud.com/fallofcivilizations/13-the-assyrians-...

  • jtwaleson an hour ago

    It's an incredible podcast. A great combination of research, history, and nostalgia. The versions with accompanying video on YouTube are good too.

  • adolph 2 hours ago

    They are thought to be more than 2,300 years old, likely from the Hellenistic period, when Iraq was under the rule of the Seleucid empire.

    So similar territory and genetic people but well after the Assyrians.

      Assyrian city-state: 2100 - 1400 BC
  Assyrian empire: 1400 - 700 BC (thru the Bronze age collapse circa 1200 BC)
  Seleucid empire: 312 - 63 BC
    (rough dates from wikipedia)

    expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC

    • kwk1 an hour ago

      Tangentially but somewhat interestingly, I was reading the other day that the field of "Assyriology" goes all the way up to the Islamic conquest, about a thousand years after the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire mentioned above.

  • staplers 3 hours ago

    It might be inappropriate to advertise it without explaining why it's relevant to the subject..

    • boringg 2 hours ago

      The Assyrians were an ancient civilization in the area about the same time...

hydrogen7800 an hour ago

Was this site known before the Mosul dam was built? It's only been about 40 years.