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🔴 **Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria's Path to Empire, 935-745 BC**

“_This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors._”

Edmonds, A. 2025. Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783111593715.

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Triumph and Betrayal

While the study of Assyria as ‘the world’s first empire’…

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Archaeology News :verified:

Remarkably preserved shrines recovered at Assyrian temple of Ninurta in Nimrud, Iraq

Excavations at Nimrud, which was once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, have revealed some intriguing new finds. In 2024, during the third excavation season, researchers uncovered two imposing shrines within the Temple of Ninurta that had survived extraordinarily intact...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/12/rem

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It may look a sand-duney-mess but that's our 2019 team aiming for the bottom of a 4m-thick mudbrick fortification wall #fieldworkfriday #neoassyrian #AncientNearEast #ashdodyam