Alamy The lamassu on the right of the Nergal Gate, photographed in 1977 It has been 70% destroyed by IS, with parts of the walls bulldozed and gates which had been excavated and restored knocked down.

The sculpture, which stood 12.5 feet tall and weighed nearly 20 tons, represented a lamassu, an Assyrian deity with a human head and a winged bull’s body. Given the intense events that had ...

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It was the throne room -- its entrances adorned with grand, symbolic statues called lamassu, or "winged bulls." ♪♪♪ -We are standing in front of a pair of winged bulls. This is an entrance ...

In a recent talk at the British Museum (BM), sitting between the two great Assyrian lamassu from Khorsabad, the Turkish writer Elif Shafak spoke about the role fiction can play in shedding light ...

(The Trustees of the British Museum) In a recent talk at the British Museum (BM), sitting between the two great Assyrian lamassu from Khorsabad, the Turkish writer Elif Shafak spoke about the role ...

Following the decision to change its house names, the school has now been likened to Hogwarts by critics after naming its ...