Campaigning in southern Iraq. Assyrian about 640-620BC. From Nineveh. Assyrian soldiers lead prisoners through a landscape of date-palms, with a river beyond. At the far end heads are counted and the booty piled in front of two clerks recording the details in a book and on a scroll.

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Campaigning in southern Iraq. Assyrian about 640-620BC. From Nineveh. Assyrian soldiers lead prisoners through a landscape of date-palms, with a river beyond. At the far end heads are counted and the booty piled in front of two clerks recording the details in a book and on a scroll.

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