Monday, 29 February 2016

Museum of Lost Objects: The Winged Bull of Nineveh

Museum of Lost Objects: The Winged Bull of Nineveh

One year ago a man took a pneumatic drill to the statue of a winged bull at the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh, near Mosul in modern Iraq. It's one of countless treasures destroyed by vandals, militants or military action in the region in the last 15 years. Kanishk Tharoor and Maryam Maruf tell the first of 10 stories about ancient objects that have now been lost.

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