The first expansionist phase of Assyrian power, under rulers such as Tukulti-Ninurta I and Tiglath-Pileser I; briefly the leading Near Eastern state before a Dark Age contraction.
Gradually transformed into the Neo-Assyrian Empire through a period of territorial contraction in the 11th–10th centuries BCE; the transition is conventionally marked by the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BCE, who began the sustained Neo-Assyrian expansion.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Middle Assyrian Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1363 BC · 1233 BC · 1076 BC.
A sweeping, readable modern narrative of Assyria across its Middle and Neo-Assyrian empires by a leading Assyriologist.
Surveys the first expansionist phase of Assyria under Tukulti-Ninurta I and Tiglath-Pileser I within the full sweep of Mesopotamian history.
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