Predator Bird Attacks a Soldier (Illustration)

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 12 September 2017

Predator Bird Attacks a Soldier — Alabaster bas-relief showing a vulture attacking a dead enemy soldier, who was killed by the Assyrian army. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 3 (bottom), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

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Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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