Iraq unveils archaeological park with ancient carvings ...Kuwait

Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an "archaeological park" of 2,700-year-old carvings from the rule of the Assyrians, including showing kings praying to the gods. The 13 stunning monumental rock-carved bas-reliefs were cut into the walls of an irrigation canal that stretches for some 10 kilometres (six miles) at Faida in northern Iraq. The panels, measuring five metres (16 feet) wide and two metres tall, date from the reigns of Sargon II (721-705 BC) and his son Sennacherib. "Perhaps in the future others will be discovered", said Bekas Brefkany, from the department of antiquities in Dohuk, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan region. Faida is the fir

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