This drawing is by Henri Faucher-Gudin and accompanied the 1916 book series "History of Egypt" by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. The drawing is based on a bas-relief brought from Nimrud that is now in British shows an Assyrian turreted battering-ram attacking walls of a town. Men in the turret are archers aiming their arrows at the town. Behind them are more archers. The townspeople have built their defensive walls and archers are trying to destroy or cripple the battering ram. The Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal III (883-859 ) had his palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in present
This drawing is by Henri Faucher-Gudin and accompanied the 1916 book series "History of Egypt" by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. The drawing is based on a bas-relief brought from Nimrud that is now in British shows an Assyrian turreted battering-ram attacking walls of a town. Men in the turret are archers aiming their arrows at the town. Behind them are more archers. The townspeople have built their defensive walls and archers are trying to destroy or cripple the battering ram. The Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal III (883-859 ) had his palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in present-day Iraq.
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