The Assyrian Church of the East is among the world's most ancient Christian communities, with roots in Mesopotamia. Its ...

The U.S.-born leader of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East discusses the rapid decline of Christianity ...

Language has always been more than communication, it’s how civilizations preserved their culture, beliefs, and history.

The Syriac language is similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke ... This rite was in union with the Assyrian (Chaldean) church which had fallen into the Nestorian heresy after the Council ...

Aramaic, once the Near East’s lingua franca around the year 1100 BC is still spoken by some small communities today. This is especially so among Assyrian Christians, though its continuous use as a ...

Tablet with a Bilingual Dictionary from King Ashurbanipal’s Library, Neo-Assyrian period, 668–627 BC ... overtaken by the simpler alphabetic scripts of Aramaic and Greek. The vast majority of ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal ...