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Fantastic use of modern light technology brings this ancient wall panel vividly back to life with projected colour! 🎨🤩 The relief comes from the North Palace at Nineveh (present day Iraq). The palace walls were decorated with brightly painted wall panels some 2,600 years ago. This relief shows three...

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The ancient city of Nimrud stood for 3000 years until 2015 It rose on the banks of the Tigris River in what is now northern Iraq, and by the ninth century BC it had become the capital of the Assyrian Empire, the most powerful state in the world... At its heart stood the Northwest Palace, its walls lined with enormous alabaster reliefs of the king at war, at the hunt, and among winged spirits, each carved with cuneiform proclaiming his conquests. Its gateways were guarded by the lamassu, colossal human-headed winged bulls set there to ward off evil, and a great ziggurat towered over the city, built to join the earth to the heavens. For nearly two centuries Nimrud was one of the wealthiest and most magnificent cities in the world, at the center of an empire that reached from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Even after the Assyrian Empire fell in 612 BC, its ruins survived, and remained buried for thousands of years... When European archaeologists uncovered them in the nineteenth century, Nimrud became one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made, revealing an entire lost civilization known until then mainly from the Bible. Then, in early 2015, the militant group ISIS, which had seized control of the region, destroyed the site. Using sledgehammers, bulldozers, and explosives, they demolished the Northwest Palace, shattered the reliefs, toppled the lamassu, and flattened the ziggurat. In November 2016, Iraqi forces retook the site, and it was later confirmed that around 90% of the excavated portion of city had been completely destroyed... What had survived for three thousand years was erased in a matter of weeks.

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