{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69a62149e7d88c9e9a5abae8/69a73707db942e85cc9089ea?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Assyrian Empire - Part 2: Forging Power from Clay and Ambition","description":"The city of Assur, once a humble gathering of mudbrick homes, now stirs with new energy. The air is filled with the clang of hammers and the shuffle of scribes. Something is changing along the Tigris—a city-state is becoming a force to be reckoned with.\r\n\r\nIn these centuries, Assur sheds its old skin. The early second millennium before the common era brings a bold transformation. Kings rise, palaces expand, and a web of control begins to stretch across northern Mesopotamia. The story of Assyria’s rise is written in clay tablets and carved in the stone walls of its temples.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecivilizationarchive.com/civilization/assyrian-empire","author_name":"The Archive Network"}