Assyrian Architecture its Characteristics and Factors Affecting it

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This research deals with the Assyrian architecture, which is one of the most important archaeological material waste of the Assyrians who settled in northern Mesopotamia from the second millennium BC (and perhaps before that) and interacted with the natural environment in this region, which made their civilization in general and their buildings in particular characterized by several advantages made them different This is because the Assyrian architecture was subjected to several intellectual and material influences, although there are many similarities between the Assyrian architecture and its counterparts of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian. To highlight the most important features of the Assyrian architecture and the factors that influenced it and made it as we found it .. It is worth mentioning that each of these features or characteristics as well as influential factors are a special topic can be studied individually, taking into account that some of them studied in detail Others need new, more detailed studies, which we are working on in the near future .

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