Semiramis's domain

Usage examples of assyria.

These three copies were, by order of the King of Assyria, Asshurbanabal, made in the eighth century B.

What king of Assyria, or Greece, or Rome, or even of these modern nations, has ever devoted himself to the study of medicine and the writing of medical books for the benefit of mankind?

I argue from these facts, not that the worship of Baal came to Ireland and Norway from Assyria or Arabia, but that the same great parent-race which carried the knowledge of Baal to the Mediterranean brought it also to the western coasts of Europe, and with the adoration of Baal they imported also the implements of bronze now found in such abundance in those regions.

Egypt and Assyria handicrafts had already come to a stage which could only have been reached by thousands of years of progress.

But I am not prepared to believe that God has left it to Satan to devise so fearful a scheme for prosecuting his evil designs as that of making the demons of Ashdod and Assyria take the names of mortal men, while teeming to follow mortal occupations.

After millennia, the gods and goddesses of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria again breathed the air of the world they had once ruled.

After that came Assyria, whose fearsome armies are credited with the first systematic application of the science of military logistics.

For more than a millennium after the fall of Babylon and Assyria, the lands of Iraq would be ruled by empires out of what would become Iran.

Babylon and Assyria, the lands of Iraq would be ruled by empires out of what would become Iran.

The speaker was a tall, authoritative-looking man of rather outlandish aspect, remarkable among other things for a full black beard, worn in a style more in vogue in early Assyria than in a London suburb of the present day.

Ancestors of Mott and Strabismus had chosen opposing sides in Assyria and at Stonehenge.

Rawlinson informs us that even Aryan roots are mingled with Presemitic in some of the old inscriptions of Assyria.

Assyria, rather than at the severe consistory of a Roman pontiff, whose solemn duty it is to exhibit in every act the sanctity of the name he bears.

For a time Assyria expanded, but eventually it fell into stagnation and merely defended itself against the nomads from the south, the Arameans.

For I knew at Corinth a certain man of Assyria, who would give answers in every part of the City, and for the gaine of money would tell every man his fortune, to some he would tel the dayes of their marriages, to others he would tell when they should build, that their edifices should continue.