Hanna Suleiman Issa Baqqain has written:

'The architecture of Hatra'

Roberto. Bertolino has written:

'La cronologia di Hatra' -- subject- s -: Antiquities, Aramaic Inscriptions, Inscriptions, Aramaic

Alexander the great conquered these cities. Rhacotis, Memphis, Tyre, Petra, Issus, Lampsacus, Halicarnassus, Byzantium, Epidamnus, Tanais, Sinope, Azara, Amida, Hatra, Babylon, Suza, Persepolis, Carmana, Ectabana, Tabae, Pura, Quetta, Nisa, Balkh, Multan, Bactria, Bannu, Taxila, Chach and Kucha. Hope this helped.

For the first Exorcist, starring Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn, the interior shots of the house were done at the CECO studios in NYC. The long steps on the side of the house, down which Father Karras tumbled to his death, are on M Street in Georgetown, Washington D.C. Archeological dig scenes were filmed at the site of the ancient city of Nineveh in Hatra, which is now al-Hadr, Iraq. Not sure about the others. We visited Georgetown and the house The Exorcist was filmed in. Interesting fact: The stairs (dubbed The Hitchcock Stairs) that Father Karras fell down are not attached to that house, but rather a couple of buildings down. We walked up and down the stairs and got breathless, as they are very steep.

Assyria, a major Mesopotamian East Semitic kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near East, existed as an independent state for a period of approximately nineteen centuries, from the 25th century BCE to the 6th century BC, spanning the mid to Early Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. For a further thirteen centuries, from the beginning of the 6th century BC to the mid-7th century AD, it survived as a geo-political entity, for the most part ruled by foreign powers, although a number of small Neo-Assyrian states such as Assur, Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra arose at different times between the 1st century BC and late 3rd century AD.