Relief Fragment of a Winged Genius (from the Palace of Assurnasirpall II at Nimrud)
Iraq
Limestone
H.90 x W.41 in Background Information on the Culture
The Assyrian kings ruled in Mesopotamia from the ninth through the seventh century B.C. They a Continue Reading...
From this came our insistence on the drama of the doorstep" (cited by Hardy 14-15).
Grierson also notes that the early documentary filmmakers were concerned about the way the world was going and wanted to use all the tools at hand to push the publi Continue Reading...
Those who went took with them knowledge of Mesopotamian customs, ideas, and skills, but many chose to remain, having put down firm roots during the decades of exile (LeMiere 19). Mesopotamia itself became even more cosmopolitan than before, since no Continue Reading...