Ashur,modern Qalʿat Sharqāṭ,ancient religious capital of Assyria,located on the west bank of the Tigris River in northern Iraq.The first scientific excavations there were conducted by a German expedition(1903–13) led by Walter Andrae.Ashur was a name applied to the city,to the country, and to the principal god of the ancient AssyriansThe site was originally occupied about 250BC by a tribe that probably had reached the Tigris River either from Syria or from the south.bedouin negro
Ashur,modern Qalʿat Sharqāṭ,ancient religious capital of Assyria,located on the west bank of the Tigris River in northern Iraq.The first scientific excavations there were conducted by a German expedition(1903–13) led by Walter Andrae.Ashur was a name applied to the city,to the country, and to the principal god of the ancient AssyriansThe site was originally occupied about 250BC by a tribe that probably had reached the Tigris River either from Syria or from the south.bedouin negro
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