Niamh Harris – A 3000-year-old Assyrian artifact is about to go on sale at Christie’s auction house in New York where it is expected to fetch more than $10 million.

However, the Iraqi government has demanded a halt to the sale of the two meter frieze and is demanding the plundered artifact is returned to its native Iraq.

The rare antiquity, which depicts the deity known as Apkallu, or “winged genius,” was excavated in the middle of the 19th century from the ruins of the Northwest Palace in Nimrud, in what is present-day Iraq. Continue reading →