Assyria

After waiting on the supermarket checkout line for an hour, we finally get to Assyria and to Byron’s drama.

There’s evidence of the mullet — which is characterized by hair closely shorn everywhere except at the back of the head, where it is left longish — appearing in ancient Assyria, Egypt and Greece.

One of the world's earliest empires, Assyria was located in the northern part of Mesopotamia - most of modern-day Iraq, as well as parts of Iran, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey.

I tried to educate myself by writing down the events of history, in parallel columns, to learn what was happening in Assyria while events went forward in, say, France.

For most cultures in the ancient world, such as Egypt, Assyria and Babylon, until the second century B.C., there was no word for "religion" as a singular, abstract concept.