The Chicago-based artist and academic Michael Rakowitz says that he hopes his Assyrian lamassu sculpture, which stood on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar square from 2018 to 2020, could ...

Lamassu sculptures are a well-known tradition in Assyrian art. A large one circa 883–859 B.C. is on display at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A team of French and Iraqi archaeologists has uncovered a remarkably well-preserved Assyrian lamassu in the ancient city of Dur-Sharrukin, present-day Khorsabad, in northern Iraq. It’s not the ...

His sculpture was unveiled March 28 in Trafalgar Square, where it will remain until 2020. It features the 14-foot Lamassu, reconstructed out of 10,500 empty Iraqi date syrup cans.

A remarkably well-preserved 2,700-year-old Assyrian Lamassu, an ancient deity in the shape of a winged bull with a human head, has been unearthed by archaeologists at Khorsabad in northern Iraq ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning 2,700-year-old sculpture in Iraq, uncovering new details about the ancient Assyrian civilization. The incredible find, a lamassu-a mythical creature with ...

The 2,700-year-old lamassu—a protective deity—had been excavated previously, in 1992, but was reburied for its protection. ... Assyrian sculpture with rich history dug up in northern Iraq.

The 2700-year-old alabaster statue depicting the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu was found in northern Iraq on October 24, ... The sculpture weighs 18 tonnes and measures 3.8 by 3.9 metres.

A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster sculpture of the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu, which was found largely intact despite its large dimensions. Only the head was ...

A Lamassu sculpture photographed in 1906 at Nimrud, near Nineveh "Wide spreading wings rose above their backs, and their breasts and bodies were profusely adorned with curled hair," he wrote in 1853.