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  • Subartu was apparently a polity in Northern Mesopotamia, at the upper Tigris, in the general sphere of influence of the Hurrians. Its precise location has not been identified. According to some scholars like Harvard Professor Mehrdad Izady, identifies Subartus with the current Kurdish tribe of Zibaris inhabiting the northern ring around Mosul up to Hakkari in Turkey. From the point of view of the Akkadian Empire, Subartu marked the northern geographical horizon, just as Martu, Elam and Sumer

  • so the whole point of your presentation was?

    

  • 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 & to the principal god of the ancient Assyrians.

    The site was originally occupied about 2500 BC by a tribe that probably had reached theTigris River either from Syria or from the south

    these ASSyrian negro invasion high mesopotamia from west desert indegenious peoples of mesopotan brought withe him fetisg pagan to region in 2500 BC

  • The fall of Nineveh shocked the ancient world. The Jewish prophet Nahum described the Median armies advancing to the city that had once ruled the Near East.

    An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. [...]

    The shields of his soldiers are red;

    the warriors are clad in scarlet.

    The metal on the chariots flashes

    on the day they are made ready;

    the spears of pine are brandished.

    The chariots storm through the streets,

    rushing back and forth through the squares.

  • Of course wisemen is wise!

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