The 2,700-year-old rock carvings from when Nineveh was the most dazzling city in the world
The 2,700-year-old rock carvings from when Nineveh was the most dazzling city in the world: Sennacherib — his face deliberately damaged in antiquity — presides over captives from the Levantine city of Lachish. British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA Archaeologists in northern Iraq, working on the Mashki and Adad gate sites in Mosul that were destroyed by …