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A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.
American archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered a massive, extremely rare carving which depicts King Ashurbanipal of Nineveh, former ruler of the Assyrian Empire.
A massive stone carving featuring an Assyrian ruler and several deities has been found in Iraq.
A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried, and uncovered again in 2023.
Other notable finds in the shrines include possible fragments of statues of unknown deities, which were originally placed on the pedestals. However, only remnants of these statues and their adornments ...
A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground.
The statue of Lamassu is 2,700 years old according to Agence France-Presse, and it was erected at the entrance of the Assyrian city of Khorsabad, the ruins of which lay roughly fifteen miles north ...
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 ...
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.
By James Imam, CNN (CNN) — Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in a gesture former culture minister Francesco Rutelli described as a “miracle” of Italian cultural ...