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. (Zaid ...

Marc DEVILLE / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Never has more history been willfully destroyed in one swath of the world than in recent years. In 2014, stealing Assyrian statues and other artifacts ...