![]() Even if we wanted to, it would not be possible to return them to their place of origin. ![]() The five-legged, alabaster beasts were not made for brightly-lit galleries. When, 3,000 years ago, sculptors in the Assyrian Empire chiselled into being winged, human-headed bulls for King Ashurnasirpal II, they could not have dreamt that their creations would end up centuries later in museums thousands of miles away. ![]() ![]() Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – and Why They Should Stay There (Oxford, 2016) ![]()
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