A ceremony in northern Iraq revealed a 2700-year-old archaeological garden. In the walls of the six-mile irrigation channel’s rock walls, 13 inscriptions were engraved.
The sculptures’ history begins with the agreement between Sargon II (721–705 BC) and his son Sennacherib. They are 16 feet wide and 6 and a half feet long (705 BC – 681 BC).
According to Art News, they contain images of rulers, reaching the gods, and the most reputable archaeologists from Kurdistan and the Italian University of Odini on excavations since their start in 2019.
While there were other rock inscriptions in the country, Daniele Morande Bonakusi, a professor of archaeology, indicated that last year the inscriptions were not “huge” such a discovery.
According to the French News Agency, the park, called FAIDA, is the first of five gardens that regional authorities believe will draw tourists.
Thieves and war caused the loss of archaeological relics in Iraq, which contains some of the most ancient cities in the world and was home to a number of early civilizations, including the Assyrians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians. ISIS also demolished pre -Islamic treasures and used smuggling to finance its operations from 2014 to 2017.
A British tourist who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling artefacts from Iraq had his sentence reduced earlier this year.
A 2700-year-old Assyrian sculpture discovered in Iraq
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