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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.
The head of a lamassu statue, an ancient Assyrian deity often depicted as a winged-bull with a human head, lies in the archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul, on January 3, 2025.
A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground.
A massive sculpture of a lamassu, a deity with a human head and a winged bull’s body, was recently unearthed at the Neo-Assyrian (ca. 883–609 B.C.) capital of Dur-Sharrukin, in northern Iraq ...
A remarkably well-preserved 2,700-year-old Assyrian Lamassu, an ancient deity in the shape of a winged bull with a human head, has been unearthed by archaeologists at Khorsabad in northern Iraq ...
The newly re-excavated 2,700-year-old lamassu—a winged bull with a human head—at the site of the ancent city of Dur-Sharrukin in northern Iraq Zaid Al-Obeidi / AFP via Getty Images With the ...
Since its first excavation in 1992, the remarkably well-preserved lamassu sculpture has survived multiple attacks on cultural heritage in the region.
A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster sculpture of the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu, which was found largely intact despite its large dimensions.
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 ...