A dig in the Middle East has uncovered statue of a winged deity, which was almost entirely intact despite its size.
The 2700-year-old alabaster statue depicting the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu was found in northern Iraq on October 24, AFP reports, in almost one piece.
Only the head was missing from the massive sculpture, but that was already in the possession of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad after being confiscated from smugglers by customs officers in the 1990s. The sculpture weighs 18 tonnes and measures 3.8 by 3.9 metres. province. Picture: Zaid Al-Obeidi / AFP. Mr Butterlin, who is a professor of Middle East archaeology at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, said “the attention to detail is unbelievable”.
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