Assyrians in a sentence

Following the defeat in 612 BC, the site remained largely unoccupied for centuries with only a scattering of Assyrians living amid the ruins until the Sassanian period, although Assyrians continue to live in the surrounding area to this day.

The site, excavated in 2019, probably dates from the days of King Manasseh, a client king for the Assyrians who ruled for 50 years.

From prehistoric man down through the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the artisans of the Middle Ages, ivory was valued for its beauty, its brilliant finish and its ability to stare time in the face and laugh.

Syria is home to an array of ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Christians, Druze, Alawite Shia and Arab Sunnis.

I am reminded of the attack upon King Hezekiah who was at one time surrounded by the Assyrians.

In the background were always challenges from Assyrians, Persians, Romans and Mongols, narrated and fought by a colourful cast of oracles, orators and commanders of dogged, lightly equipped horse-mounted warriors.

About his Eastern Lands, he wrote "think of Saracens, Arabs, Parthians, Assyrians even.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah witnessed the destruction of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Sargon 's Assyrians in c. 720 BC and was king of Judah during the invasion and siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib in 701 BC.

Aram-Damascus came out victorious, temporarily preventing the Assyrians from encroaching into Syria.

Archaeologists Aharoni, et al., estimated that this "exile of peoples to and from Israel under the Assyrians" took place during ca. 734–712 BCE.

At length God brings the Assyrians to destroy the northern kingdom, leaving Judah as the sole custodian of the promise.

At their height, the Assyrians dominated all of the Levant, Egypt, and Babylonia.

Babylonians and Assyrians divided dreams into "good," which were sent by the gods, and "bad," sent by demons - they also believed that their dreams were omens and prophecies.

Because God sent lions among them to kill them, the king of the Assyrians sent one of the priests from Bethel to teach the new settlers about God's ordinances.

By the 8th century BC, Damascus was practically engulfed by the Assyrians and entered a dark age.

Egypt 's 26th Dynasty, which had been installed by the Assyrians as vassals, quietly detached itself from Assyria, although it was careful to retain friendly relations.

Events * 763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

Government also encouraged resettlement of Albanians from Kosovo and Assyrians in the region to change the population makeup.

History Periods have often been named after a ruler or other influential figure: *One of the first recorded cases of eponymy occurred in the second millennium BC, when the Assyrians named each year after a high official (limmu).

However, in the face of overwhelming numbers in a campaign against the Assyrians, Cyrus armed the commoners with similar arms instead of their normal light ranged armament (Cyropaedia 2.1.9).