Archaeologists uncover monumental relief of King Ashurbanipal in ancient city of Nineveh A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

In Nineveh’s North Palace, archaeologists uncovered a monumental 12-ton relief of Ashurbanipal flanked by deities—a rare Assyrian throne-room scene. Forgotten by 19th-c. digs, it lay buried for millennia.
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