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The Rassam Cylinder, a 10-sided prism from the 7th century BC with an inscription describing the reign of Ashurbanipal
The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...
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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 ... including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental ...
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Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
was unearthed in Nineveh in the 1850s, and thousands of tablets found there were transferred to the British Museum. Among these was the Flood Tablet, deciphered by George Smith in 1872 ...
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Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
Nineveh, where this relief, now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic ...
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Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's Ark
Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ... along with "birds and beasts of all kinds," according to the ...