Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Neo-Assyrian Empire is considered the largest empire known in the ancient East. Its borders extended from the Anatolia region in Turkey in the north, to the depths of the Arabian Gulf in the far south... and from Elam and Hamedan in Iranian lands in the east, until the city of Thebes, the capital of the Pharaohs in the west.
The language of international correspondence was the Assyrian language, which was written in cuneiform, and since the Assyrian king represented something like the president of the General Assembly of Eastern Nations, translators were needed who were fluent in different languages: such as Babylonian, Egyptian, Phoenician, Aramaic, Hittite, Median, Elamite, and others.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire was one of the empires in the history of Mesopotamia that began in 934 BC and ended in 605 BC. [1] During this period, Assyria assumed the position of the most powerful nation in the Middle East at that time, successfully surpassing Babylonia, Egypt, Armenia, Urartu and Elam. It dominated the Near East, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. But despite the reforms carried out by Tiglath-Pileser III in the eighth century BC, it did not become a stable empire. Assyria was originally an Akkadian kingdom that developed from the 25th century BC to the 24th century BC. The early Assyrian kings like Tudiya were simple rulers. After the founding of the Akkadian Empire, which lasted from 2334 BC to 2154 BC M. became subject to Sargon of Akkad, who united the Akkadian and Sumerian people in Mesopotamia under one law.
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Source: History of Art in Mesopotamia / Part Three - Zuhair Sahib.