Three thousand years ago, a genie graced the walls of an Assyrian palace. Then it disappeared. Now it is languishing in police vaults at London's Scotland Yard.

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire ... Earrings with shapes of pine tree cones ...

When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud ... adorned a palace wall, depicts a priest performing a ceremony before a motif called a tree of life.