Unique relief discovered in the Assyrian royal palace of Nineive

In the course of its history, which up to around 2600 BC. BC, the Assyrians immediately built a whole series of splendid capitals of their kingdom. Aššur on the Tigris bank in the north of today’s Iraq started, followed by Kalchu (the later Nimrud), major-Šarukin and finally the famous nineive of the New Assyrian Empire.