A photograph genuinely shows a 2,700-year-old Assyrian deity statue that was discovered in Iraq in 1992, intentionally buried ...

The incredible find, a lamassu-a mythical creature with the body of a bull, wings of a bird, and a human head-represents a powerful deity that once stood guard over the city of Dur-Sharrukin.

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