of dark alabaster Assyrian reliefs has stood proudly in the marble ... date back 27 centuries to the days when they graced the palace of Nimrud’s King Ashurnasirpal. In Los Angeles, they seemed ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern ... which uncovered many reliefs. Many Ancient Assyrian Tombs have been found in the past, however the goods had all ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, and artifacts. The museum offers a wide array of exhibits spread across ...

Among the most-prized missing objects: the Warka Vase, a sacred limestone piece from Uruk; a marble head of Poseidon; and an Assyrian ivory ... converted the vast palace cellars into granaries ...

Smith would go on to become the world's leading expert in the ancient Akkadian language and its fiendishly difficult script, write the first true history of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire ...

A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

This scenario parallels later Jerusalem, where eighth-century BCE levels reveal a surge of ivory carvings and exotic goods once the city became a prosperous Assyrian vassal. In contrast, researchers ...

A photograph shared to social media in March 2025 showed a large, partially buried headless statue alongside excavators. With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was ...

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