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The administrative innovations for the state organization of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (935-612BC), military hierarchy & political bureaucracy, were so successful that remained constant for the greatest part of the civilized world until almost C19th.

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2020-01-21

Shown here is a Assyrian cylinder seal from the 8th century BCE. It depicts Marduk fighting Tiamat, the goddess of nature & chaos, who tries to destroy the world. Marduk cut her into pieces and makes the world inhabitable. This story is repeated in the myth of Osiris & in Genesis

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2019-12-10

Climate change fueled the rise and demise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, superpower of the world. https://t.co/N5MDeL1ce9

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2019-11-14

Arte Asirio
Assyrian Art

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2019-11-11

Special edition

Austria-Hungary (1869-1918)
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Assyrians
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Assyriastria-Hungary:

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2019-11-08

My aquatints for last year's study task in Stroganov Academy of Art. I chose the theme "Ancient assyrian architecture".

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2019-10-27

a figure in an Egyptian - style red crown, slaying a griffin. Neo - Assyrian ca. 9th - 8th century B. C. Mesopotamia.


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2019-09-14

My Dads Quruburti royal guard were painted very similar to this when I was a kid. I think I will emulate that with mine although I may do fancy shield decorations.

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2019-08-26

his armor was a bit too european for my tastes so I changed it to a more Scythian/Assyrian inspired. Also changed his skin color to a bit more bluish tone to allude to his cause of death

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2019-07-23

I love the Wargames Foundry line of Assyrians, but their 4 hours chariots seem way too small. Am I the only one that thinks this?

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2019-07-02

Neo-Assyrian Amethyst Vase, c. 8th century BC

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2019-05-25

Eser Afacan, Assyrian painter and sculptor b.1953, now working in Canada

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2019-05-10

Hey guys! My name is Demetria and I am a Demi Assyrian artist!

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2019-05-02

Hey there! My name is Demetria! I am an Assyrian artist and I love to draw!

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2019-05-02

I am an Demi Assyrian artist who like to draw lots of nerdy stuff!

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2019-04-26

Herbs that ward off evil and repel demonic entities. From The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903) by R. Campbell Thompson, Vol. 1, Evil Spirits, a Treatise on Assyrian Demonology.

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2019-04-17

Divine curls.
A couple of apotropaic deities —‘lahmu’ or ‘hairy’(!) with 6 curls—and two Assyrian ‘House Gods’ protecting a doorway near the throne room in the Palace at Nineveh. 645-640 BC.
And so we enter the exhibit ...

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2019-02-17