ALBAWABA - A recent dig in northern Iraq has uncovered an astonishing 2,700-year-old sculpture of the divine winged deity, Lamassu, standing 18 tonnes heavy and measuring in at 3.8 by 3.9 metres, and made by alabaster. The sculpture, which was thankfully largely intact with only its head missing, was uncovered at the entrance to the ancient city of Khorsabad, some 15 kilometres north of the modern city of Mosul. The ...