Language, writing, and religion exhibit the closest relationship and agreement between babylonia and Assyria.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
Though we are able to find only approximately the dates of the kings of Assyria, whose names and deeds we have passed in review, the result is, nevertheless, that the power of Assyria in the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries did not go far beyond the native country-that her forces by no means surpassed those of Babylon-that precisely in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C. the kingdom of Babylon was at least as strong as that of Assyria-that even towards the close of the twelfth century Tiglath Pilesar I. could gain no success against Babylon-that his successors sought to establish peaceful relations with babylonia.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
At a later time apparently the enclosure of the corpse in a narrow coffin of clay became common here, as in babylonia.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker