Assyria

The Neo-Assyrian State Archive Letters

Thousands of letters recovered from the state archives at Nineveh and Kalhu argue that the Assyrian empire was governed as much through anxious, granular written exchange, omen reports, troop movements, palace gossip, as through the military campaigns its royal annals prefer to advertise.

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