Together, the value of the two pieces — an Assyrian bas-relief dating from fifth century B.C. and a marble head from the Roman Empire — is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, though they ...

The pieces – an Assyrian bas-relief and a marble head dating from the Roman Empire – are together valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

These appear to be casts of reliefs from Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of ...