• Thumbnail for List of Assyrian kings
    Originally it was assumed that the list was first written in the time of Shamshi-Adad I c. 1800 BC but it now is considered to date from much later, probably from...
    87 KB (7,441 words) - 10:16, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shammuramat
    consort of the king Shamshi-Adad V (r. 824–811 BC), Shammuramat reached an unusually prominent position in the reign of her son Adad-nirari III (r. 811–783...
    31 KB (4,031 words) - 17:30, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Middle Assyrian Empire
    This aspiration chiefly came into fruition through the efforts of the kings Adad-nirari I (r. c. 1305–1274 BC), Shalmaneser I (r. c. 1273–1244 BC) and Tukulti-Ninurta...
    98 KB (12,848 words) - 09:46, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nabonidus
    was Adad-guppi, born in c. 648/649 BC. Although once assumed to have been part of the Babylonian royal harem, no evidence exists to date that Adad-guppi...
    79 KB (10,550 words) - 15:28, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tiglath-Pileser III
    son of Adad-nirari or Ashur-nirari. The Assyriologists Fei Chen, Albert Kirk Grayson and Shiego Yamada consider it more likely that he was Adad-nirari's...
    61 KB (7,507 words) - 13:23, 30 October 2024
  • death in 773 BC. Shalmaneser was the son and successor of his predecessor, Adad-nirari III, and ruled during a period of Assyrian decline from which few...
    10 KB (1,138 words) - 23:46, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tukulti-Ninurta II
    884 BCE. He was the second king of the Neo Assyrian Empire. His father was Adad-nirari II, the first king of the Neo-Assyrian period. Tukulti-Ninurta consolidated...
    4 KB (307 words) - 21:35, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neo-Assyrian Empire
    penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient...
    194 KB (24,888 words) - 15:18, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Assyria
    pp. 149–150. Llop 2012, p. 107. Yamada 2000, p. 300. Parker 2011, p. 369. Parker 2011, pp. 360, 370–371. Parker 2011, p. 360. Jakob 2017b, pp. 149–151...
    140 KB (17,022 words) - 09:15, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nitocris of Babylon
    several known persons: Naqi'a, wife of Sanherib, known for building activities Adad-happe, the historical mother of Nabonidus, last king of Babylon an otherwise...
    7 KB (766 words) - 19:09, 2 November 2024