Lachish Reliefs (made around 700 BC). Stone panel, found in northern Iraq. Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire ...

A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...