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Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq
The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and ...
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The Penn Museum Presents Preserving Assyria
Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...
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Carved relief from Nineveh
Ashurbanipal built a new palace, now known as the Northern Palace ... Click a button to explore other objects in the timeline Kuyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq ...
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Researchers uncover massive palace in ancient Assyrian capital Dur-Sharrukin
The settlement is located at the site of the present-day village of Khorsabad in northern Iraq. Sargon II was unexpectedly ... Sharrukin to the settlement of Nineveh shortly afterwards.
Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage
IS’s destruction of this site revealed an Assyrian palace underneath the church ... were displaced from Sinjar and the ...
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Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
Could it be, then, that the famous gardens were in Nineveh all along ... Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of its royal palace. Like his predecessors, he ...
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Carved relief from Nineveh
At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh as his capital and built what he called the 'Palace without Rival', decorating it with finely carved reliefs.