The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
- Title
- The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
- Creator
- Leonard Cottrell and 48 contributing scholars specializing in history and languages
- Date
- 1964
- Description
- Leonard Cottrell’s edited volume The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology, a collaborative work by 48 contributing scholars specializing in history and languages, explains that Assyrian power ended catastrophically with the sack of Nineveh in 612 BC. From that point, the Assyrians “disappeared as a nation for ever.” The entry adds that their modern image is mediated largely through Old Testament narratives and, more recently, through the decipherment of their own inscriptions, while emphasizing that no Assyrian nation survived beyond the seventh century BC.
- Language
- English
- Item sets
- assyrians
