2-714-337 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Procession of the Bull', 1890. Archaeological excavations began in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in 1845. Austen Henry Layard's expedition transported a Lamassu with human head, body of a bull, and wings of a bird. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]