Exquisite examples of Assyrian relief carving may be seen at the British and Metropolitan museums.

A number of ancient Egyptian, Assyrian and Persian reliefs show mounted figures, usually rulers, though no free standing statues are known.

As of 2007 there were some 4,852 items, including winged Assyrian reliefs.

Eight Egyptian works focus on hostility toward foreigners, while Assyrian reliefs show how conquests caused mass deportations.

Why not the Assyrian reliefs I mentioned?

A 9th-century Assyrian relief depicts soldiers using ladders to scale walls, while others use their spears to scrape the mud and clay from the walls.

However, when they attempted to sell three Assyrian reliefs using the same provenance as they had previously, suspicions were raised.

However, these were subject to more scrutiny and indeed it was one of these, the Assyrian reliefs, which led to their being exposed and caught.

Arrested in 2006 attempting to sell three Assyrian reliefs to the British Museum.

The bireme was recorded in ancient history on 8th-century Assyrian reliefs.