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Outrage: Extremists take ancient statues, damage Iraqi site
FILE - This Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 file photo shows a detail of a statue from the Assyrian period displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. Islamic...
Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) | Assyrian | Neo-Assyrian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
BAS REIEF HEAD OF A MAN IN PROFILE (DETAIL), FROM A PRECESSION OF TIRBUTE BEARERS, ASSYRIAN EMPIRE (710-805 BCE), THE PALANCE OF SARGON II, KHORSABAD, MODERN IRAQ. VIA HARDIAN9.TUMBLR