With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness ...

An illustration in the German edition of "On Famous Women" by Giovanni Boccaccio from 1474 shows Semiramis, the queen of Assyria, and her maids in knickers with the mentioned bow. How a small ...