A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

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.

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. Rating: True (About this rating?) A ...

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.

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.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in a gesture former ...

Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in what has been described as a “miracle of Italian cultural diplomacy”. Constructed in the ninth century BC, the 5m-tall Bull of ...