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British Museum
A city besieged. Assyrian archers and warriors using a battering ram attack a city on a hill in this eighth-century B.C.E. relief from the palace of Tiglath-pileser III at Nimrud. The capture of the city is also shown (Assyrian art often depicts sequential events simultaneously), with soldiers climbing up a ladder into the city and hanging, impaling and decapitating the inhabitants.