This article is an excerpt from a book titled The Assyrian Flag.It is in the form of an extensive interview that Mr. Homer Abramian, the chief editor of Kirkha (an Assyrian periodical published in ...

A Neo-Assyrian gypsum relief depicting a royal lion hunt, from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud Palace Relief. Created between 875 BC and 860 BC. ... Many of these feature tall winged beings with ...

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 ...

Assyrian kings placed statues of winged lions and cows at the gates of their palaces, believing that these statues prevented wicked souls from entering. Mahmoud Hossein, the head of the archaeological ...

The piece, entitled The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (2018), recreated an Assyrian winged bull with a human head, known as a lamassu, made in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh in 700 ...

The 2700-year-old alabaster statue depicting the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu was found in northern Iraq on October 24, AFP reports, in almost one piece. The massive sculpture was almost entirely ...

The Assyrian site of Nimrud - feared bulldozed by Islamic State militants - has yielded riches unrivalled in the ancient world, writes archaeologist Augusta McMahon.

In the ancient city of Nineveh, a statue of a winged bull survived undamaged for 2,700 years - until IS took a pneumatic drill to it last year.

Islamic militants have bulldozed Iraq's only surviving palace from the Assyrian Empire. Iraqi workers clean a winged-bull statue at the archaeological site of Nimrud in July 2001. Photograph by ...

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 ...