I’m going to Chicago and wanted to know if there are any Assyrian bakeries or restaurants that you would recommend. I looked through Google but it’s not the best at showing actual Assyrian places to go to. Anything helps thanks 🙏
I was looking around the other day for artifacts during the Neo-Assyrian empire written in Aramaic (as one typically does) and found a short book with some decent sources along with an old website with pictures of these artifacts.
Diglossia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire’s Akkadian and Aramaic Text Production
Nimrud: Materialities of Assyrian Knowledge Production - Aramaic and Hebrew in alphabetic scripts
I don't know if these were shared before, but I thought it would be good to put out there.
From what I've read, the conclusion to why we switched from Akkadian to Aramaic was not by choice by necessity because an overwhelming number of citizens in the empire spoke Aramaic. which eventually seeped through administratively since a lot of higher rank officials and scribes started to come in from the west of the empire eventually becoming an administrative. A cool read IMO.