This 1949 photo taken by British mystery author Agatha Christie shows a statue of a lamassu, a winged bull from Assyrian mythology who guarded the royal court from evil, at the ancient site of Nimrud, ...

"Assyria will Rise" by Paul Batou. In the first millennium BC, ancient Mesopotamian civilization pioneered the first multinational empires in world history. The Assyrian Empire was the first of these.

Memoir of Colonel George Macdonell, C.B -- The law of nations -- The law of nature -- Primitive life -- Chronology from the point of view of tradition -- Chronology from the point of view of science - ...