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A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram with an observation turret attacks the collapsing walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange arrows. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, about 865-860 BC; now in the British Museum.
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| Date | 14 September 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | ChrisO ( Own work ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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