This section is primarily aimed at university teachers. It makes a variety of suggestions for lectures, small group teaching, and student work based on our own experience of teaching these topics to history undergraduates who have no specialist knowledge of ancient Assyria or its languages.
As always, we welcome feedback and suggested additions and improvements.
Here are some links to downloadable images and Google Earth and Google Sky content (KMZ files) used elsewhere on the website. For instructions on downloading Google Earth (including Google Sky) and installing KMZ files, see the External Resources page.
The identification of ancient places with modern sites is not always certain. We have followed the certainty codes 1-4 in Parpola and Porter, Helsinki atlas (2001), and coloured the pins in the Google Earth (KMZ) files accordingly:
