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Aššur, also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Middle Assyrian Empire for a time, of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and a semi-independent state during the Parthian Empire between the
Ziqqurat Ashur and Ashur city walls
Akkadian period statue body found at Assur
Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC
Golden necklace (2000 BC). Grave 20 of Assur
Assyria
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Assyria was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed from the 21st to 7th centuries BC which conquered and administered most of West Asia from the Assyrian heartland in Upper Mesopotamia
Assur
…of Shalmaneser III. From Assur, Iraq. 858–824 BCE A statue of the god Kidudu, guardian spirit of the wall of the city of Ashur. Circa 835 BC. A map of Assyria A relief of Ashurnasirpal II, with an official In the Neo-Assyrian Empire (912–605 BC) the royal residence was transferred to other Assyrian cities…
The ancient Assyrian heartland (red) and the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 7th century BC (orange)
The head of a female statue, dating back to the Akkadian period (c. 2334–2154 BC). Found at Assur, display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
The ruins of the Old Assyrian trading colony at Kültepe
A partial relief of Tiglath-Pileser III, r. 745–727 BC, under whom the Neo-Assyrian Empire was consolidated, centralized and significantly expanded