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• We therefore find that the Assyrian empire was founded on the city of Nineveh, that it was a very ancient kingdom going back to the early days of Genesis (even before Laban from Mesopotamia spoke Aramaic with Jacob), that they were a Semitic people, and that they spoke Aramaic.
• Not only was the Assyrian Empire a very ancient empire, it was a very geographically extensive empire indeed. At its peak, it stretched across the whole of the Fertile Crescent, the very cradle of civilisation, as it is often referred to.