Many argue, that the image represents the unification of the sky with the Earth. Assyrian relief carvings from ancient Iraq, 883-859 BC, also show handbag carvings. Theories say that according to ...

At the end of the 8th century BC the Assyrian King Sennacherib chose Nineveh ... including the famous carvings now in the British Museum. This section, now in the Oriental Museum in Durham ...