Why Do We Consider Assyria The Most Sadistically Violent Empire When Oftentimes It Wasn't?

Published: May 16, 2023, 7:40 a.m.

At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Assyria\u2019s wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek...