The
list of Assyrian kings is compiled from the
Assyrian King List, an ancient kingdom in northern
Mesopotamia (modern northern
Iraq) with information added from recent archaeological findings. The Assyrian King List includes regnal lengths that appear to have been based on now lost
limmu lists (which list the names of
eponymous officials for each year). These regnal lengths accord well with
Hittite,
Babylonian and
ancient Egyptian king lists and with the
archaeological record, and are considered reliable for the age.