Akitu
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Akitu or Akitum is a spring festival and New Year's celebration, held on the first day of the Assyrian and Babylonian Nisan in ancient Mesopotamia and in Assyrian communities around the world, to cele
Assyrians celebrating Akitu year 6769 Nisanu (April) 1st 2019) in Nohadra (Duhok), Iraq
Babylon relief
Post-imperial Assyria
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The post-imperial period was the final stage of ancient Assyrian history, covering the history of the Assyrian heartland from the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC to the final sack and destru
Stele of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 BC), found at Harran
Depiction of an Assyrian soldier on the tomb of Xerxes I at Naqsh-e Rostam
Detail of a stele in the style of the Neo-Assyrian royal steles erected in Assur in the 2nd century AD (under Parthian rule) by the local ruler Rʻuth-Assor
The Great Iwans at Hatra. The rebuilt Ashur temple at Assur was likely similar to this building in appearance and size.