With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The photo was shared across social media ...

More than 2,700 years ago, Assyrian king Sargon II ordered the construction of his own city in what is now Iraq. ... One such statue, known as a lamassu, was excavated by archaeologists in 1992.

Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in a gesture former culture minister Francesco Rutelli described as a “miracle” of Italian cultural diplomacy. Constructed in the ...

More than 2,700 years ago, Assyrian king Sargon II ordered the construction of his own city in what is now Iraq. ... One such statue, known as a lamassu, was excavated by archaeologists in 1992.

More than 2,700 years ago, Assyrian king Sargon II ordered the construction of his own city in what is now Iraq. ... One such statue, known as a lamassu, was excavated by archaeologists in 1992.

More than 2,700 years ago, Assyrian king Sargon II ordered the construction of his own city in what is now Iraq. ... One such statue, known as a lamassu, was excavated by archaeologists in 1992.

More than 2,700 years ago, Assyrian king Sargon II ordered the construction of his own city in what is now Iraq. ... One such statue, known as a lamassu, was excavated by archaeologists in 1992.

Tugendhaft thinks that progressivism worships images (say rights, or diversity, or internationalism) just as hollow and man-made as any image that ISIS serves. Knocking down Assyrian statues suits one ...