Bas-relief showing Assyrian soldiers playing with the decapitated heads of their enemies, from the palace of Ashurbanipal Relief. Neo-Assyrian Period

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Bas-relief showing Assyrian soldiers playing with the decapitated heads of their enemies, from the palace of Ashurbanipal Relief. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BC. Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. Assyrian Empire. Old engraving illustration from the book Universal history by Oscar Jager 1890

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