Eckart Frahm

Eckart Frahm is a German-American Assyriologist and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. He is one of the world's leading experts on the ancient Assyrian empire, one of the most powerful and influential civilisations of the ancient Near East. Assyria is his comprehensive history of the Assyrian empire, tracing its rise from a small city-state on the Tigris River to a superpower that dominated the ancient world for centuries. Frahm brings the Assyrians to vivid life — their military might, their cultural achievements, their sophisticated administration and their eventual dramatic collapse — making a convincing case that Assyria was one of history's most significant and underappreciated civilisations. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Assyria offers authoritative and engaging listening and reading for history enthusiasts who want to discover one of the ancient world's most powerful empires, told by one of its foremost scholars.