Assyrian Calendar: The traditional starting date of the Assyrian calendar is 4750 BCE.
Berber (Amazigh) Calendar: The start year of 950 BCE is linked to the ascension of the Assyrian King Shoshenq I.
His story is particularly noted for the divine intervention that saved Egypt from an Assyrian invasion.
Assyrian Invasion:
"In his reign, Sennacherib king of the Arabians and Assyrians marched a great army against Egypt".
He prayed earnestly to Hephaestus in a temple, seeking the god's aid against the Assyrian invasion.
Herodotus recounts a miraculous event where field mice gnawed through the quivers, bowstrings, and shield handles of the Assyrian army, rendering their weapons useless.
This divine intervention caused panic among the Assyrians, leading to their defeat.
This, too, is the ordinary form of the altars dedicated to the Assyrian god of fertility.
Here the accompaniments--a shield, a hamlet, and a couple of bead-annulets or rosaries--are, with a single exception, identical in even the minutest particular with an Assyrian monument emblematical of the Deity.
The Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians later adopted it and developed it further.
In Assyria, the festival included elements specific to the Assyrian gods and political setting, though many core elements stayed close to the Babylonian tradition.
In the Assyrian city of Assur (Ashur), the temple of the god Ashur was the centre of the New Year celebrations, which shared elements with the Babylonian Akitu festival.
Ashur, the chief god of the Assyrians, was honoured with rituals that affirmed his supremacy and the king's divine mandate.
"Apkallu" (also spelled "apkallū") and "Abgal" are terms from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, particularly in Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture.
The main ones are the Assyrian incantation series Bīt mēseri ("protected house") and the Uruk List of Kings and Sages, a tablet from the 2nd century BCE.
The Anunnaki are a group of deities in ancient Mesopotamian cultures, particularly in Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythology.
Utu (Sumerian), Shamash (Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian), god of the sun and justice, one of the Anunnaki
Asshur: Asshur is seen as the founder of the Assyrian people.
Ashur - God of Assyria and patron deity of the Assyrian Empire
Ashur - God of war and the patron deity of the Assyrian empire
The Assyrians were another Mesopotamian civilization that worshipped the Annunaki, although their religious beliefs were somewhat different from those of the Babylonians and Sumerians.