DNA from this 3,000-year-old brick tells the story of a king—and …
2023年8月30日 · 2,900 years ago, Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II declared a sun-baked mud brick as his. Can it now reconstruct the environment he lived in?
Wall Reliefs: Ashurnasirpal II's War Scenes at the British Museum
2017年9月13日 · Ashurnasirpal II had decorated the walls of his North-West Palace at the heart of the Assyrian Empire, Nimrud, with approximately 2-meter high alabaster bas-reliefs, depicting various scenes, like a movie in stone. The protagonist of the play, the title role, and the award winner, undoubtedly, was the King himself.
Scientists Extract DNA From 2,900-Year-Old Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II
2023年8月24日 · Using modern biotechnology, researchers from the University of Oxford and Aalborg University in Denmark were able to extract and study the ancient DNA in the 2,900-year-old bricks to reveal hints...
Assyrian Cuneiform Brick - World History Encyclopedia
2015年4月10日 · The cuneiform inscriptions on this mud-brick mention the name of Ashurnasirpal II, the Assyrian king. From northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 883-859 BCE. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq.
The Assyrian Sculpture Court - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The sculptures in the gallery all date to the reign of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 B.C.), a king whose military expeditions to the west reached the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and helped lay the foundations for an empire that came to dominate the Near Eastern political landscape from the ninth through seventh centuries B.C.
Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick ... - Nature
2023年8月22日 · We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed fracture surface of a clay brick deriving from the palace of king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) in Nimrud, Iraq. We detected 34 unique...
DNA Extracted From 2,900-Year-Old Palace Brick
2023年8月24日 · Researchers have extracted plant DNA from an ancient clay brick that was once a part of the palace of the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II. Following the sequencing of the isolated DNA, specialists have successfully categorized thirty …
Wall Reliefs: Ashurnasirpal II at the North-West Palace
2017年4月18日 · A real terror of the Middle East, Ashurnasirpal II decisively crushed any revolt, massacred defeated rebels, and even burned children and women after an uprising; heartless and merciless! The Assyrian literature told us that the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II was a wonder at that time, mid-9 th century BCE.
Assyrian reliefs - World History Encyclopedia
2011年8月3日 · The reliefs were first used extensively by king Ashurnasirpal II (about 883-859 BCE) at Kalhu . This tradition was maintained in the royal buildings in the later capital cities of Khorsabad and Nineveh .
Brick with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II | Assyrian | Neo …
Title: Brick with inscription of Ashurnasirpal II. Period: Neo-Assyrian. Date: ca. 883–859 BCE. Geography: Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Culture: Assyrian. Medium: Ceramic. Dimensions: 14 3/8 × 14 5/8 × 4 7/8 in. (36.5 × 37.1 × 12.4 cm) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1954. Accession Number: 54.117.29