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2,700-Year-Old Assyrian Stele Discovered at the Sun Gate of Ancient Nineveh
A stone monument has been uncovered at Bab Shamash, the ancient Sun Gate of Nineveh, where people once passed into one of the most powerful cities of the Assyrian world. Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage announced the discovery during ongoing excavation work in Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq. The large stone stele has been…
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Ashurbanipal Stele Found at Nineveh’s Shamash Gate, Where Two Catastrophes Struck 2,600 Years Apart
At Nineveh’s Shamash Gate, archaeologists have uncovered an unusually powerful record of destruction: the fall of the Assyrian capital in 612 BC and the scars of the modern battle for Mosul more than 2,600 years later. The discovery comes from recent work at the monumental eastern entrance to ancient Nineveh, one of the most important…