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Where am I now, and what am I doing? Presently, I live with my wife, Marie-Therese and two children, Herminda and Ninyas, in Florida, U.S.A., and are both retired. Retirement gave me the time and opportunity to study the history of Mesopotamia, starting with Sumer and Akkad, then Assyria and Babylonia, from its beginnings to the present. Book stores are filled with books about Egypt, which is well deserved, but books about Assyria and Babylonia are rare, which is an injustice. The lack of books on the shelves of bookstores is the sign of a lack of interest in the media, and the general population. Mesopotamia has been called the Cradle of Civilization by historians, and the blood of thousands of American soldiers and other nations has been spilled to create a democratic Iraq, that would become, hopefully, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East. All this makes it imperative to fill the void and show to the world who the original and ancient owners of the country are. The book "Ancient and Modern Assyrians" introduces the Assyrians as the oldest survivors of the land called "The Cradle of Civilization," known today as Iraq.