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Feb 13 Blog

The Sands of Time

A recent study of the Ishtar temple at Assur has identified an unusual feature beneath the temple’s earliest floor: a thick layer of prepared sand. […]

Jan 4 Blog

Iraq’s Capital Catastrophe

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Assur, the first capital and spiritual heart of the Assyrians—the great Mesopotamian empire that, in the first millennium B.C.E., subjugated much of the Near East, […]

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