(a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
(2) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(3) They included a 7th-century BC Assyrian inscription that, she discovered, had been mistranslated in the 1920s, reducing passages to "absolute nonsense".
(4) After 18 years of study, Stephanie Dalley of Oxford University has concluded that the garden was built by the Assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia – in modern Iraq – rather than by their great enemies the Babylonians in the south.
(5) Formed in October 2015, the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Circassian militias, has seized swaths of territory in north and north-east Syria from Isis.
(6) Assyrian militias have supported and fought alongside the YPG against Isis.
(7) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(8) Ethnically, Mosul was home to Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians.
(9) Iraq for instance has Kirkuk, once the ancient Assyrian capital of Arrapha, founded around 2,200BC, and with the ruins of a 5,000-year-old castle to prove its bona fides.
(10) Clashes are ongoing near Tal Tamr, an Assyrian town that straddles the river, where forces from the Syriac Military Council militia and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – the militia that emerged victorious in the battle for the border town of Kobani – are defending the town.
(11) The desire for a long and healthy life was expressed often by Assyrian kings in their extant public texts from the 14th through the 7th centuries BC.
(12) She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul , named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
(13) Christopher Jones, a PhD student in ancient history at Columbia University who blogs about the neo-Assyrian empire, said: “What is at risk?
(14) The destruction follows a similar incident this week when Isis fighters bulldozed the ancient Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul.
(15) In the vault for archeological fragments drawers that once held evidence of Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture have been pulled out and stripped.
(16) A photograph of a handwritten list has emerged purporting to show the names of the captured Assyrian Christians.
(17) The occurrence of congenital malformations had been documented by the Assyrian and Babylonians about 2,800 B.C.
(18) How the ancient city of Palmyra looked before the fighting – in pictures Read more Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
(19) "That's OK if they are writing about Assyrian archaeology, but if you're writing those papers to use for public policy then there's an obligation on people to criticise what needs to be criticised."
(20) He followed a magnificent – if at times halting – procession of clerics from the Assyrian church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox churches, the Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic church clad in purple, scarlet, black and white.
Babylonian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
(n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
(n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 18 years of study, Stephanie Dalley of Oxford University has concluded that the garden was built by the Assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia – in modern Iraq – rather than by their great enemies the Babylonians in the south.
(2) Liver surgery has grown over 2000 years from the mystic hepatoscopy of the Babylonians to the ultimate of orthotopic transplantation by Starzl in 1968.
(3) In the vault for archeological fragments drawers that once held evidence of Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture have been pulled out and stripped.
(4) The occurrence of congenital malformations had been documented by the Assyrian and Babylonians about 2,800 B.C.
(5) For White-Spunner, it is also political: it is about telling a long, deep story about Iraq's past that shows the diverse riches of its Assyrian, Babylonian, Sasanian and Arabic heritage.
(6) Twin gods were worshipped by Babylonians and Assyrians (who even introduced them among astronomic constellations), and may be also found in the Persian and Veda religions.
(7) The evidence presented by Dalley, an expert in ancient Middle Eastern languages, emerged from deciphering Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform scripts and reinterpreting later Greek and Roman texts.
(8) It has been trumpeted as "the building with more up top"; a swollen pint glass of a tower that bulges out as it rises to pack in more offices at the lucrative higher levels, with a Babylonian sky-garden up above.
(9) Congenital malformations are mentioned in Assyrian and Babylonian literature, and the opinions of Democritus, Empedocles and Aristotle regarding their origin persisted in modified form until the Middle Ages.
(10) There's Nisaba the Babylonian goddess who looks after the stores of both grain and knowledge in Mesopotamia; the Hindu goddess Saraswati; the Zoroastrian Anahita; the ancient Greek Athena; and the Shinto Omoikane (a fine goddess of holistic thought and multitasking).
(11) Jeremiah 50:25 reads: "The Lord has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Sovereign Lord Almighty has work to do in the land of the Babylonians."
(12) You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China.
(13) Rosenberg uses the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian hordes again, in a poem of that title, to illustrate the carnage around him: Sweet laughter charred in the flame That clutched the cloud and earth, While Solomon's towers crashed between The gird of Babylon's mirth.
(14) Since the Babylonian gate was reconstructed in Germany with original bricks in the 1930s, Iraq has repeatedly called for its return .
(15) She believes her research shows that the feat of engineering and artistry was achieved by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, rather than the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.
(16) Its walls were once inscribed with the dictator's name, but now harbour more tasteful antiquities from Iraq's Assyrian, Babylonian and Arabic past .
(17) The sizes of the Babylonian cubit, Arab fitr and shibr, Greek eclipse digit, and Chinese chang support the conclusion that the registered distance of the stars was about 10 to 40 metres in these four cultures over the last two millennia.