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Iraq dig unearths 2,700-year-old winged sculpture largely intact
MOSUL: 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 missing and that was already in the collection of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad after being confiscated by customs officers from smugglers in the 1990s, the dig’s French leader Pascal Butterlin said.“I never unearthed anything this big in my life before,“ Butterlin said of the 18-tonne sculpture measuring 3.8 by 3.9 metres (about 12.5 by 12.8 feet). “Normally, it’s only in Egypt or Cambodia that you find pieces this big.“The attention to detail is unbelievable,“ said the professor of Middle East archa

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