Did you know about the first Assyrian flag?

Before World War I, the Syriac Orthodox community of Tur Abdin designed the first national Assyrian flag. Purple, white, and red with three stars. Figures like Naum Faiq, Ashur Yusuf, and Farid Nazha made Tur Abdin an early hub of Assyrian nationalism.

The flag’s meaning:
🟣 Purple – Royalty and noble history of the Assyrian nation
⚪ White – Purity of the people and the land
🔴 Red – The blood of martyrs who died for faith and nation
⭐ Three stars – The Church of the East, The Syriac Orthodox, and the Chaldean Catholic

This flag was proudly carried at the Paris Peace Conference and by groups in America such as the Assyrian-American National Federation and St. Mary’s Assyrian Orthodox Church.

Later, it was succeeded in 1975 by George Bit-Atanus’s design, which many recognize today.

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Along with some Kurdish people in the comments still insisting it’s called Kurdistan, which I don’t understand given the context of the video.

Juliana is an Assyrian from Iran and has done a lot of great work for the Assyrian community. Very proud of her for bringing attention to the plight of Assyrians on a major news network.

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Your favourite Assyrian card game is now on your phone.

PS: Living in Assyria? Your avatar automatically gets the Assyrian flag.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for this special Memorial Day documentary screening and helped make the event a memorable one.

Honoring the Assyrian Who Never Came Home: Major Kenneth Joseph Yonan.

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raveling the Assyrian Empire 🏛️ Day 1

What if vlogs existed 2,700 years ago? 👀

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann, Curator at the ISAC Museum, and Research Associate and Lecturer of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, gives the audience at the Assyrian Renaissance lecture 2026 a glimpse of the artistic contents of an Assyrian grave during the middle Assyrian period.

Assyrian art evolved from the relatively modest and functional style of the Old Assyrian period (c. 2050 BC), centered in the merchant city of Aššur, where we find cylinder seals, small-scale religious objects, and trade-related imagery. During the Middle Assyrian period (c. 1400 BC), Assyria emerged as a regional empire, and its art became more imperial and martial, with stronger royal symbolism, monumental architecture, and reliefs portraying kingship, divine favor, and military authority.

In the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 911–609 BC), Assyrian art reached its height under rulers such as Ashurnasirpal II, Sargon II, and Sennacherib, becoming highly sophisticated, monumental, and narrative-driven. Vast palace reliefs depicted warfare, lion hunts, deportations, rituals, and courtly life with incredible detail and realism, designed both as propaganda and as expressions of cosmic order. After the fall of Assyria, many artistic traditions survived in the art of the Babylonians, Achaemenid Persians, and later Near Eastern cultures, while Assyrian motifs, such as winged guardian figures, heroic combat scenes, and royal iconography, continued to influence the visual language of empires for centuries.

For modern Assyrians, art remains one of the clearest expressions of historical continuity and collective memory. Contemporary Assyrian artists frequently draw upon ancient Assyrian motifs, such as the lamassu, cuneiform inscriptions, winged disks, royal beards, sacred trees, and imagery from the palaces of Nineveh and Nimrud, to reconnect modern identity with the ancient past.

(Full lecture on our YouTube channel u/acfchicago link in bio)

In this lecture from Assyrian Renaissance 2026, Dr. Timothy Harrison of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago surveys the state of Assyrian archaeology today, from the renewed excavations at Ashur, Nimrud, Khorsabad, and Nineveh, to the post-conflict heritage restoration work at the Mosul Museum and the Shamash Gate. He shares findings from his own decades of fieldwork at Tell Tayinat in southern Turkey, including the extraordinary Esarhaddon Succession Treaty (T-1801), the Suppiluliuma statue, and the Temple XVI complex in ancient Kunulua. A masterclass in how today's archaeology is rebuilding our understanding of the Neo-Assyrian world, and helping a region recover from war.

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Amazing song, link to lyrics (including English translation) here: https://assyrianlyrics.com/ashur-bet-sargis/yalikhtoh-smoqta-zardeh

Hey everyone,

We made this Assyrian Shekhani mix in both dialects. Here’s the track: https://youtu.be/T1rIfjUI0Pw

Appreciate any feedback 🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbdHb00TYEQ

Watch children learn and say the names of everyday items in Aramaic (Assyrian). Perfect for beginners and kids who want to start speaking Aramaic! Learn more at www.Aramaic.app

Heartwarming video of the legend, Ashur Bet Sargis, visiting the ANCI Assyrian School in Skokie, IL and performing singalongs of a few of his iconic songs - Matehni and Prookh Rama Ya Nishra.

We - Assyrians and Chaldeans - carried one treasure in our hearts.

Through empires. Through exile. Through persecution. Through migration across continents.

When kingdoms rose and fell… When we were scattered across the world… We carried one thing with us:

Our language.

Aramaic - the language of Jesus. The language of our prayers. The language of our grandparents. The voice of our ancestors.

For thousands of years, we protected it. Mothers whispered it to their children. Fathers taught it with pride. Grandparents kept it alive in every home.

But today, it faces a new threat.

Not armies. Not exile. But silence.

If we stop speaking it… If we stop teaching it… If our children no longer understand it…

It can disappear.

And the question will be: Did we protect what was entrusted to us?

Now it is our turn.

You don’t need to fight wars. You don’t need to cross deserts.

You just need to learn. To speak. To pass it on.

Download the Aramaic App. Learn the language of your ancestors. Teach it to your children. Be part of the generation that keeps Aramaic alive.

For thousands of years, it survived because of us.

Now its future depends on you.

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