The Spoils of War.(relics from ancient cities in Iraq not being properly excavated, and how the threat of war will affect ancient sites)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: February 10, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Sennacherib was King of the Universe, King of the Four Corners of the World, and King of Assyria. From his lofty perspective on a throne in Nineveh, just outside the modern Iraqi city of Mosul, those titles all meant the same thing: unparalleled power. Nineveh was the largest city in the known world in Sennacherib's day, about 700 B.C., and his palace one of the grandest, its walls decorated with reliefs depicting his feats in war and engineering.

Art historian John Russell knows those walls well. Just before the last Gulf War, he photographed thousands of feet of carved ...

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