With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness ...

This scenario parallels later Jerusalem, where eighth-century BCE levels reveal a surge of ivory carvings and exotic goods once the city became a prosperous Assyrian vassal. In contrast, researchers ...

The Sphinx of Taharqo, in its calculated mixture ... east border - an aggressive policy that led to conflict with the Assyrian king, Sennacherib - whose stone reliefs were the subject of the ...