Ancient city razed by IS group yields new artifacts from the rubble
Archaeologists uncover fragments at a 3000-year-old Assyrian temple dedicated to the first goddess in the written record
Now, researchers sifting through the rubble have unearthed previously unknown artifacts from a ruined temple dedicated to Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war.
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