So the French are letting us have the Bayeux Tapestry for a bit.

[Burney]

Did you see that programme recently about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? A carving in the British Museum supports the theory that it was in Nineveh (now Mosul).

I think the Babylonian and Assyrian sections of the BM are my favourite. There's some eye-poppingly good stuff in there. The Assyrian friezes in particular are astonishing.

[Ash]

I think the Babylonian and Assyrian sections of the BM are my favourite. There's some eye-poppingly good stuff in there. The Assyrian friezes in particular are astonishing.

And there's something wondrous about Cuneiform script too imo.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

I think the Babylonian and Assyrian sections of the BM are my favourite. There's some eye-poppingly good stuff in there. The Assyrian friezes in particular are astonishing.

Yup. Those lion hunt bas-relief friezes are stunning. The Benin Bronzes are ace, too.