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كنز النمرود... ذهبٌ يروي حكاية آشور!
613 قطعة أثرية من الذهب والأحجار الكريمة، كشفت للعالم روعة الفن والصياغة الآشورية، وشهدت على حضارة صنعت مجدها وتركت بصمتها في التاريخ.
**آشور إرثٌ لا يندثر.**
#كنز_النمرود #آشور #نينوى
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📚👑 The World’s First Library — And the Fire That Saved It.
THE GREAT LIBRARY OF ASHURBANIPAL — WHEN ASSYRIA PRESERVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMANITY
🏛️ Over 2,600 years ago, King Ashurbanipal of Assyria created one of the world's earliest systematically organized libraries in Nineveh, the magnificent capital of the Assyrian Empire.
📜 More than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments were discovered, preserving extraordinary knowledge of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, law, religion, history, and literature.
🌍 Ashurbanipal, one of the few ancient kings trained as a scholar, ordered scribes to collect and copy important texts from across Mesopotamia, creating an unparalleled treasury of ancient knowledge.
✨ Among its greatest treasures was the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest surviving masterpieces of world literature.
🔱 The library's tablets were written in cuneiform, preserving centuries of intellectual achievements. Even after Nineveh fell in 612 BC, much of this knowledge survived beneath its ruins for more than 2,000 years.
🦁 Before modern libraries, before printed books, an Assyrian king understood that knowledge was humanity's greatest treasure.
⚜️ Kingdoms rise and fall, but the wisdom of Assyria lives forever!
#Assyria #Assyrian #Assyrians #Ashurbanipal #LibraryOfAshurbanipal #Nineveh #AssyrianEmpire #Mesopotamia #AncientCivilization #EpicOfGilgamesh #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #WorldHeritage
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من قلب التاريخ الآشوري… صدى الحجر يتحدث
من بين جدران قصر الملك آشورناصربال الثاني في مدينة (الكالخو)، تقف هذه المنحوتة الجدارية شاهدة على أمجاد حضارتنا منذ ما يقارب 2800 عام.
تحكي الحجرات بصمتها قصة ملوك ومعارك وطقوس مقدسة تجسد روح آشور التي لم تنطفئ رغم العصور.
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A king of Kish has no son. He rides an eagle into the sky to find the plant of birth.
Mesopotamians told this story. Akkadian seals from about 4,250 years ago (est.) already show the flight.
The Myth of Etana 🧵
ALT A white display of an ancient limestone cylinder seal beside its modern clay-like impression. The rolled scene shows a man riding an eagle upward, a standing shepherd, a dog, sheep and goats, and a figure working a churn at the top.
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الملك شلمنصر الثالث
يُعد شلمنصر الثالث أحد أبرز ملوك الإمبراطورية الآشورية ، وهو الملك رقم 112 في قائمة الملوك الآشوريين. تولّى الحكم بين عامي 858 و824 قبل الميلاد، واستمر عهده نحو 35 عاماً، ليكون من أطول عهود الملوك الآشوريين في تلك الحقبة، ولا يفوقه في مدة الحكم سوى الملك آشوربانيبال الذي حكم 42 عاماً.
الاسم المعروف «شلمنصر» هو الصيغة التوراتية للاسم الأكدي الأصلي «شلُمانو-أشريد» (Šulmānu-ašarēdu)، ويعني «الإله شلُمانو هو الأول». وكان شلُمانو أحد ألقاب الإله أنليل، ثم ارتبط لاحقاً بالإله آشور في العقيدة الآشورية. وقد حمل هذا الاسم خمسة ملوك آشوريين آخرين، من أبرزهم شلمنصر الأول وشلمنصر الخامس.
ورث شلمنصر الثالث العرش عن والده آشور ناصربال الثاني، واستطاع خلال فترة حكمه أن يعزز نفوذ الدولة الآشورية ويقودها إلى ذروة جديدة من التوسع العسكري. وتكشف النصوص المسمارية عن نشاطاته خلال 31 سنة من حكمه إضافة إلى سنة تتويجه. وخلال السنوات الست والعشرين الأولى كان يقود جيوشه بنفسه في الحملات العسكرية، قبل أن يتولى قائد الجيش «ديان آشور» قيادة الحملات اللاحقة بينما بقي الملك في العاصمة الآشورية كالخو ( النمرود حاليآ ) في نينوى شمال العراق
شهد عهده نشاطاً عسكرياً مكثفاً، إذ سُجلت حملة عسكرية واحدة تقريباً في كل عام من أعوام حكمه المعروفة، باستثناء السنة الرابعة التي شهدت حملتين، ليبلغ مجموع الحملات المسجلة 33 حملة. وقد أسهمت هذه الحملات في ترسيخ الهيمنة الآشورية على مناطق واسعة من الشرق الأدنى القديم.
ومن أهم الآثار المرتبطة بعهده المسلة السوداء لشلمنصر الثالث، وهي من أشهر الآثار الآشورية المكتشفة. وتوثق هذه المسلة انتصار الآشوريين على تحالف ضم اثنتي عشرة مملكة غربي نهر الفرات بقيادة الملك الآرامي بن هدد الثاني في معركة قرقور.
كما تكتسب المسلة السوداء أهمية تاريخية خاصة لأنها تُعد أقدم شاهد أثري معروف يذكر العرب بصورة واضحة، إذ يرد فيها ذكر شعب يُدعى «عريبي» (Aribi) أي العرب إلى جانب ملكهم جندبو العربي، الذي شارك ضمن القوى المتحالفة ضد آشور. ولذلك تُعد هذه الإشارة من أقدم الإشارات المدونة للعرب في المصادر التاريخية القديمة كما أنها تحدد موطن العرب في منطقة غرب الفرات
King Shalmaneser III
Shalmaneser III was one of the greatest kings of the Assyrian Empire and the 112th ruler listed in the Assyrian King List. He reigned from 858 to 824 BCE, ruling for about 35 years, making his reign one of the longest in Assyrian history.
His name, Šulmānu-ašarēdu, means "The god Šulmānu is foremost." Šulmānu was an epithet of the god Enlil and was later associated with the Assyrian god Ashur. Shalmaneser III succeeded his father, Ashurnasirpal II, and expanded the Assyrian Empire through a series of successful military campaigns. Cuneiform inscriptions record 33 campaigns, most of which were personally led by the king during the first 26 years of his reign.
One of the most important monuments from his reign is the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, which commemorates the Assyrian victory at the Battle of Qarqar against a coalition of twelve kingdoms west of the Euphrates.
The Black Obelisk is also historically significant because it contains one of the earliest known references to the Arabs, mentioning the Aribi ("Arabs") and their ruler Gindibu the Arab, who fought against Assyria. This inscription is regarded as one of the earliest written references to the Arabs in ancient historical sources.
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Although icons are not used by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Eucharist is considered the visible representation of Christ's humanity and called the "beautiful icon". The Eucharist is the true image of Christ.
"I will extol you, my Lord, the King! On the holy altar is placed the beautiful icon, the body of our Savior. The priest in contemplation hangs his eyes to heaven and there comes into his hands the gift [which] atones for the sins of his flock so his ministry may be without blemish."
- Khudra vol. I, p. 241.
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From Words to Action: How the Assyrian-Syriac Diaspora Can Build Stronger Institutions | By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen
@Denhozmen1 | #InstitutionBuilding #Diaspora #Syriacs #Assyrians #Youth #NationBuilding #IntergenerationalTransmission
syriacpress.com/blog/2026/11…
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Fragments of a history book written around 280 BC by Berossus, a Babylonian priest, record that Neo-Assyrian kings fought Greek raids on the coast of Anatolia.
This has been confirmed by cuneiform records showing that Berossus was using these ancient chronicles to inform his history.
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An Assyrian tablet stacks three heavens of stone. Top: Anu's. Middle: Marduk on lapis, lit by an amber lamp. Bottom: jasper, with the stars drawn on it.
Tonight: that vision — and why scholars compare it to Ezekiel.
Photo: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, CC BY-SA 4.0
ALT A round clay tablet in a museum case showing a circular map of the world with cuneiform labels, Babylon near the center, a ring of water around the land, and triangular outer regions beyond the ring.
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The problem with JD Vance is he is better at giving speeches than creating results.
He talked endlessly about the plight of Iraq’s Christians both before he became VP & during the months following inauguration.
He fancifully quoted Church Fathers in front of think tanks & policy institutes, imploring moral courage to support persecuted Christians.
“We must possess the moral clarity to act when something has gone wrong.”
What did he do for Iraq’s Christians once he wielded power? Absolutely nothing. The Assyrian Christian population, the last group to speak Aramaic, is nearing extinction.
He didn’t have the moral clarity to act in Syria, which the admin handed to Jihadis that bomb churches.
He didn’t have the moral clarity to act in Armenia, swallowed by the Azeri-Ottoman Axis the admin helped prop up.
He didn’t have the moral clarity to elevate the status of Christians in Israel or to stop the displacement of Maronites in Lebanon.
He didn’t have the moral courage to stop the Iran War, which is accelerating Christian emigration across the region.
Christian Genocide was a useful topic for JD’s branding as a hardcore Catholic, but he dropped the topic once he wielded power.
His moral convictions were nowhere to be seen. He either never held them, or lacked the initiative to execute.
Simply put, some men are better at giving speeches than they are at bending the world to their will.
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حكمة اشورية
إذا الملك لم يكترث للعدالة، فإن شعبه يضطرب وبلاده تُدَمَّرْ.
Assyrian wisdom
If the king does not care about justice, his people will be disturbed and his country will be destroyed.
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What I thought originally is true ;
Kurds are a southern Iranian nomadic tribal people who have never founded a state or city.
None can be proven. No surviving city has conclusive historical or archaeological evidence of original foundation by ancient Kurds. Cities such as Erbil predate any identifiable Kurdish ethnogenesis by millennia and were founded by earlier Mesopotamian or Hurrian groups. Later foundations like Sanandaj or Sulaymaniyah occurred in the early modern period under Kurdish principalities, not in antiquity.