Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire Marvels as she saw it

as she saw it

recently gifted to the Morgan Library & Museum’s collections by the artist himself

There are also new insights into Morris’s personal life and relationships

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Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire Marvels as she saw itAt 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. In Assyria, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of the Assyrian empire and its formative role in global history. Assyrias wide ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the