Ancient Iraq
- Title
- Ancient Iraq
- Creator
- Georges Roux
- Date
- 1965
- Description
- George Roux writes that after the Medes and Babylonians destroyed Nineveh, Assyria disappeared almost overnight, its cities and culture vanished, unlike Babylonia, which the Persians did not destroy and where monuments and inscriptions show some continuity into later periods. In his words, Mesopotamian civilization lay buried and forgotten until modern excavations, and Assyria is among the Near Eastern states that were wiped out by devastating wars.
- Language
- English
- Item sets
- Destruction of Assyria
