Middle Assyrian
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Middle Assyrian refers to the Middle Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East
, ca. 16th to 10th centuries BC (the Late Bronze Age)
Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , ancient Egypt, ancient Iran The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia...
, ca. 16th to 10th centuries BC (the Late Bronze Age)
- the Middle Assyrian Empire, see Assyrian Empire
- the Middle Assyrian language, see Akkadian languageAkkadian languageAkkadian is an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate...
- Middle Assyrian cuneiform, see Cuneiform scriptCuneiform scriptCuneiform script )) is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BC, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium , cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs...