Assyrians
Archaeology
DNA Extracted From 2,900-Year-Old Palace Brick
Researchers have extracted plant DNA from an ancient clay brick that was once a part of the palace of the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II.
Following the sequencing of the isolated DNA, specialists have successfully categorized thirty-four plant groups, among them...
Ancient Greece
The Settlements of the Ancient Greeks in Egypt
For the majority of Egypt's Pharaonic history, Greece and Egypt had very little to do with each other. There is limited evidence for trade, and certainly not much evidence for regular travel between the two countries. However, in the...
History
Greek Assyrians Search for Justice a Century After Ottoman Pogrom
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The Greek Assyrian minority in northern Iraq was driven from the oil-rich area of Mosul in the 1910s after a pogrom launched by the Ottomans