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Jun 11
Finally ancient DNA confirmed from Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS)…
Laboratory investigations are underway, including isotopic and ancient DNA analyses of the 17 individuals. This work will help researchers understand their origins and relationships.
"Archaeologists uncover 4,000-year-old evidence of siege warfare in ancient Mesopotamia"
eurekalert.org/news-releases…
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Jun 6
When removing admixture (Armenian, Iranian Zoroastrian) drift causation, the modelling captures a vague 50-50 result for modern Assyrians
3rd image further proves it demonstrating overfitting due to very similar sources (upper Mesopotamian) being used to target populations.
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Jun 6
Modern Assyrian ancestry can simply be modelled as:
IA Upper Mesopotamian Iranian Armenian/IA-Anatolian, max. 4 sources all is needed to target actual ancestry for any modern avg.population.
We don't need similar large num. of sources competing to guess where Assyrians are from.
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Jun 2
EPAS — Interesting info. about the ancient Erbil Plain agrarian practice is during the Bronze Age the area was a dry-farming plain, while substantial irrigation agriculture was only practiced by the Neo-Assyrian state via the multi network canal project, Sennacherib engineering.
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According to Prof. H. Keuhne, the river terraces and plains surrounding Arbela (Erbil) was abundantly irrigated, the region was heavily engineered both hydraulically and demographically, the Assyrian canal systems fed into a large irrigated zone directly between Arbela and Kalhu.
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The intention of such projects isn't only to feed the population, rather the objective was to connect the Assyrian heartland together via hinterland expansion
For instance, the lower Erbil Plain rural area was designed to sustain the Assyrian capital cities of Arbil, & Kalhu.
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Sennacherib's Bastora Chai subterranean channel served its purpose to feed the region, the ruralists (lower EPAS/Shamamok area) benefited from increase food production for themselves & the state (tax), while the urbanites, i.e Arbela (Erbil city) benefitted due to rapid growth.
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May 29
Iraq — Assyrian NPU (13th Regiment) inspecting the outskirts of Bakhdida city, Nineveh Plains, Assyria, a routine applied day and night to keep the area safe.
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May 30
Autosomal DNA of Batnaya village, Assyria-
Batnaya population is small & conservative, 1 sample is enough to determine the population is Mesopotamian, this also rules out the hypothesis that medieval Batnaye were Medes (Iranian) due to a misunderstanding of church politics.
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Batnaye were historically part of the land of the Assyrians (Athra d-Athoraye) during the early medieval period, and declared their local cultural belonging in 1729 when Batnaya united with Tel Keppe and Alqosh villages as 'representing Ninevites' (Ninwaye) in Constantinople.
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Robbie retweeted
جمال الربيع في منطقة نالا ،اشور ، شمال العراق ❤️🤍💙
The beauty of spring in the Nala region, Ashur, northern Iraq ❤️🤍💙
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May 26
Video breaks down the issues Assyrians in Ankawa are facing, as long as the city remains a mere district of Erbil, Ankawa will continue to face oppression, and it will only get worse, autonomy for Ankawa is the only solution to secure full rights for the city’s native inhabitants
Ankawa has been transformed from the final enclave for Christians in Iraq into a hellscape of degeneracy, harassment & abuse.
The Assyrian town is overrun by outsiders who abuse the Christian quarter as their playground.
It’s time for the KRG to clean this up.
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May 24
Yeah, I wonder... what are Ankawi-Assyrians doing in their native ancient town Ankawa?
You see how stupid these Barzanists are?
May 23
های الكتابة اشوریی؟ اذا هالقد كارهین الكورد شنو شغلهم ب محافظة كوردیة؟؟
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May 23
Update: The Assyrian Democratic Movement condemns the action taken by the Erbil Kurdish governor, which will escalate ethnic tensions between Assyrians and Kurds.
May 23
UPDATE: Hand in Hand for Ankawa Org. condemns Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw, calling the report by the KDP against the cafe as fabricated and condemns KDP oppressive acts against Ankawa.
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May 23
UPDATE: Hand in Hand for Ankawa Org. condemns Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw, calling the report by the KDP against the cafe as fabricated and condemns KDP oppressive acts against Ankawa.
May 23
Ankawa Assyrians defended the honor of their town and establishment against Kurdish nationalists who were trying to harass Assyrian women and families in the cafe, the cowards used government powers to shut down the cafe, may Ankawa achieve victory against the KDP oppressors.
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Ankawa Assyrians defended the honor of their town and establishment against Kurdish nationalists who were trying to harass Assyrian women and families in the cafe, the cowards used government powers to shut down the cafe, may Ankawa achieve victory against the KDP oppressors.
May 23
Assyrians stand in solidarity with Ankawa Montana Cafe and denounce KDP Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw, this reaction comes as indigenous Ankawis hold resentment towards the KRG for its years of oppressive policies,
Ankawa's social & cultural identity must be respected.
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May 23
Assyrians stand in solidarity with Ankawa Montana Cafe and denounce KDP Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw, this reaction comes as indigenous Ankawis hold resentment towards the KRG for its years of oppressive policies,
Ankawa's social & cultural identity must be respected.
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May 22
Early 1st century BC (80 BC, Tigranes ii era) — Map of the Great Zab region, ethnic boundaries include Gordyene, Aturia (Assyria), & Adiabene, this period took place prior to the Adiabene kingdom expansion that unified the three Syriac speaking upper Mesopotamian culture zones.
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Afterwards, Adiabeni-Ninevites (Assyrians/Athoraye) unified from the Late 1st century BC & centuries after the establishment of the Church of the East in Ctesiphon, the Gordyene however split from the country, joining Arbayistan (Nisibis) near the beginning of the 4th century AD.
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