🔴 **Restoring At-Risk Assyrian Cultural Heritage: Archaeologists Recover Remarkably Preserved Shrines from a Temple in Iraq **

_“In its third season, project excavations unearthed two new shrines within the sprawling Ninurta Temple. Inside the larger shrine, the team found a monumental stone dais (a low platform for the statue of a god or goddess worshipped in the temple (measuring about 12 ft. by 9.5 ft.) with a cuneiform inscription, presumably of King Ashurnasirpal II.”_

🔗 https://www.penn.museum/about/press-room/press-releases/restoring-at-risk-assyrian-cultural-heritage-archaeologists-recover-remarkably-preserved-shrines-from-a-temple-in-iraq

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