The Vanished Assyrians

I don't think I am exaggerating by saying,
No nation or people in the world has contributed to the 'emergence of civilization' as the Assyrians have, and no Church or Denomination has spread Christianity in the World as The Holy Apostolic Church of The East (known as The Assyrian Church of The East) has.

Yet, the Unjust World, including the United Nations, thinks (and has always tried to think) that Assyrians do not exist; they say, Assyrians vanished from the face of the Earth in 612 BC, when their Great Empire fell. But of course a large number of Assyrians survived the aftermath of the decline of Assyria. And in fact, Assyrians have contributed to the World even more than when they had their glorious Empire.
It is interesting when we read in the books and encyclopaedias that Assyrians contributed a great deal to the Persian and Greek civilizations. Furthermore, the priceless treasure of the Assyrian Aramaic language and literature for centuries became the 'source' for the enrichment of the Greek philosophical and theological works. This is not all.
The eminent Assyriologist, Doctor Simo Parpola, of Helsinki University in his well known paper, 'Assyrians after Assyria', says,
' ... we know that the Greeks and Romans from Plato till antiquities kept learning spirituality and science from the Assyrians and Babylonians.'
And elsewhere, Professor Parpola says,
'The essential thing is that the Assyrians still preserve their ethnic, cultural and linguistic identity in spite of their loss of political power and heavy persecutions they have experienced especially in the Christian era.'

The Vanished Assyrians (continued)

The excerpts are from chapter 23 and 24. It begins with,
'Japan owes much of her civilization to the Church of The East. This may come as a surprise to many. If so, there will be more surprises in store for those who are not informed as to how strong a determining factor Christianity was in the corner of Island Empire.'

And somewhere in the middle of chapter 24 we read,
'The Church of The East in the 5th century left Edessa which was just within the border of the Roman dominion, and moved the institution to Nisibis, a few hundred miles within the Persian Empire. Here, near the Tigris River a great University [the first university in the world] was established, which for a thousand ....'

And in the same chapter under the heading, 'Civilization of the Church of The East', we read,
'It has been noted how in the 9th century the civilizing education system of the Church of The East dominated the golden age of the mighty Arabian Empire so much so that it permeated the literature of China and Japan in the East, and paved the way for the founding of universities in Europe.'