Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

“It was a surprising realization that not only the pedestals for votive statues were found in the 19 th-century backfill, but also vast quantities of statue fragments themselves,” according to ...

The temple was filled with hundreds of votive statues, some of colossal size, and the discovery was considered one of the most spectacular finds of its time. After his excavations, however ...

“It was furnished with a lavish abundance of votive statues numbering in the hundreds, some of which were of colossal dimensions,” according to the release. But the archaeologist was ...