New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...
The stone reliefs, which are around 3000 years old, were once decorated with colored pigments, long since lost through the ages. Professor Jim Higginbotham (Associate Professor of Classics on the ...
Wall relief panel depicting an “urmahlilu” (Lion-Man) (645-640 BCE), a protective spirit, North Palace, Nineveh, in the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria (unless noted otherwise, ...
Ever since the Los Angeles County Museum opened a year ago, a massive assemblage (8 ft. by 251 ft.) of dark alabaster Assyrian reliefs has stood proudly in the marble foyer. Admired by the museum’s ...
The Assyrian reliefs at the British Museum. Exhibition Design by RAA. Immersive exhibits by Journey. Photography courtesy of Journey. (Alberto Romano) Journey, a global design and innovation studio ...
Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire. "What ...
List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Ch. 1. "Our Nineveh enterprise" / Ada Cohen and Steven E. Kangas -- Plates -- Ch. 2. The early exploration of Assyria / Julian Reade -- Ch. 3.
One of the Assyrian reliefs from the eighth century BC that were returned to Iraq by Switzerland. (AFP) -- Switzerland on Friday returned to Iraq three important Mesopotamian objects seized during a ...
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