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Assyrian Art And Culture

Excavations and research should have been helpful in constructing a history of the empire, however the lack of experience and modern techniques on the part of earlier researchers has caused previous assumptions to be invalidated. The research was thrown out because of the inaccuracy of the studies. There were inaccuracies such as mistakes of dates and a great deal of research that was based on opinion rather than fact. All the new studies of the culture have been done using the art as a way of understanding the history of the empire.2.
             The capital cities that were built for the Assyrian Empire expressed the Assyrians" artistic nature through their architecture of their buildings. Most Assyrian architecture is in northern Mesopotamia. The capital cities along with the culture were strategically placed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for the empire's protection, transportation, and water supply. This is a great area to have a culture grow successfully. The Assyrian way of life was dependent on these two rivers. In most cases each capital city that was built with sections of the massive structures partially on top of these rivers.3 These massive palaces took long periods of time to build. The natural resources of the Mesopotamian area were used as building materials in Assyrian architecture. The area was rich in alluvial mud but lacked stone and lumber. Sometimes stone was imported into the culture and was mostly used for the sculpting, but stone was a resource that never went to waste. These massive cities were made almost entirely of mud bricks using the labor of all the citizens".4 The Assyrians did not experiment with their architecture like other cultures did; they only created rectangular cubes for the basis of their architecture. This made the structures fairly simple but the sizes of these palaces were amazing, all the while sending a visual message of strength and dominance.


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