A captivating saga of life in Ancient Assyria from the 6th century BCE, when the Assyrians struck fear into all the inhabitants of the East—from the Near East and Egypt to the Caucasus and India. The reader is immersed in a wonderful, mysterious world where vividly drawn heroes act in a rapidly unfolding plot. One undeniable strength of the Chronicles is that the literary work does not conflict—neither in details nor in its overall composition—with the scholarly and historical information we have about that period.