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Title
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Western Society: A Brief History
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Creator
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John P. McKay et al.
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Date
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2009
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Description
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John P. McKay and coauthors explain that after the joint Median and Babylonian assaults of the late seventh century BCE, Assyrian urban centers were destroyed and imperial power collapsed. With their cities in ruins and political authority gone, the Assyrians “disappeared from history,” surviving mainly as a negative memory in biblical tradition. They add that about two centuries later Xenophon marched past the mounds of Nineveh without recognizing them, illustrating how completely the imperial past had faded from living knowledge until modern rediscovery.
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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John P. McKay, Western Society: A Brief History, 2009, p. 32.
