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Only this fragment of a large stele has survived. On the surface, the Assyrian and Babylonian kings were carved in relief. The cuneiform inscription narrates a political treaty between them. The faces of the kings were deliberately vandalized...

This is one of the finest examples of the so-called "cow-and-calf" motif and is the only known to date to have been carved in the distinctive style of the "Ornate Group". On the right, a cow stands and turns her head toward her suckling calf...

This cylinder was fragmented into two or three main parts when it was found, although it was carved from one large tusk. The scene depicts an unidentified Egyptian pharaoh wearing the blue crown (khepresh; with a uraeus at the front) of Egypt...

A modern statue of Oda Nobunaga who was the foremost military leader of Japan from 1568 to 1582 CE. Kiyosu park, Aichi, Japan. (Image cropped)

A 16th century CE portrait of Oda Nobunaga who was the foremost military leader of Japan from 1568 to 1582 CE. Painted by Kano Soshu. (Toyota, Aichi, Japan)

This limestone slab was inscribed with an Aramaic inscription. The name of the city of "Hatra" as the center of the region "Araba" appears. From the 11th temple at Hatra, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Parthian period, 1st to 3rd century CE. On...

This alabaster jar is inscribed with Elamite, Old Persian, and Neo-Babylonian cuneiforms. A cartouche of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I also appears. From Nimrud, in modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Regin of Xerxes I, 486–465 BCE. On display...

This cuneiform inscription on this gypsum wall panel narrates the building process and construction of a palace by the neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II at the city of Nimrud. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, in modern-day Ninawa Governorate...

Cay tablet narrating the building works of the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II (r. 911-891 BCE), from Ashur (Assur), modern-day Iraq. The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

This stone tablet was found in a niche into the right-hand wall of the space leading to the burial chamber of Tomb II (one of the vaulted burial chambers of the so-called Queens' Tombs inside the North-West Palace at Nimrud). The cuneiform...