In the 1970s, Assyrians began to celebrate August 7th as Assyrian Martyrs’ Day. This day was chosen because in August of 1933, military forces from the newly-founded country of Iraq massacred approximately 3,000 Assyrians in Simele, Iraq. Although historically connected to the Simele Massacre, Assyrian […]
In 1921, James Henry Breasted, the founder of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, decided to gather up a team of scholars to create an Assyrian Dictionary. He envisioned that the scholars would study the […]
Did you know that one of the first modern archaeologists to dig the remains of the ancient Assyrian Empire was himself an Assyrian? Hormuzd Rassam dug at such places as Nineveh and Nimrud, […]
Full Post Did you know that there was an Assyrian economics professor at Oxford University? Dr. Eprime Eshag worked at Oxford from 1962 until his retirement in 1986. His specialties […]
Did you know that an Assyrian medical doctor compiled and published an Assyrian-English dictionary with his wife during his spare time? Dr. Alexander Oraham published Oraham’s Dictionary of the Stabilized and Enriched Assyrian Language […]
