Category: Mesopotamia

Assyria was a powerful and historical region located in the ancient Near East, occupying present-day northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and the western fringes of Iran. The foundations of the Assyrian…

Known as the unsurpassed seafarers of the ancient world, the Phoenicians emerged as a prominent civilization around 1550 BC along the Levantine coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, in the region now known…