The probable time frame in which the first Assyrians came to Chicago initially as seminarians and later as medical students would be between the 1880's and 1890's. Eventually, by the turn of the ...

The probable time frame in which the first Assyrians came to Chicago initially as seminarians and later as medical students would be between the 1880's and 1890's. Eventually, by the turn of the ...

Hundreds of thousands of cuneiform texts pressed into clay and carved in stone hold the key to understanding life in the Fertile Crescent. In 1921, James Henry Breasted formed the Chicago Assyrian ...

UChicago scholars have worked to decipher languages that haven’t been spoken for thousands of years. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, finalized after nine decades, was the key to unlocking ancient ...

The twenty first day refers to the 21 volumes of the Assyrian Dictionary authored by the University of Chicago, a project that took almost hundred years to complete. April is an important month in ...

“There are times when I wish I could give it to them,” he says, eyes shining a little as he speaks of what his Assyrian refuge parents, who met in Chicago, underwent on his behalf. Esho Rasho ...