Iraq unveils archaeological park with ancient carvings

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Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an "archaeological park" of 2,700-year-old carvings from the rule of the Assyrians, including showing kings praying. The 13 stunning monumental rock-carved bas-reliefs were cut into the walls of an irrigation canal, which stretches for some 10 kilometres (six miles) at Faida in northern Iraq.
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We are not Iraqi Christians. We are Assyrians. We are the indigenous people of this land.

One day we will return to our country. Assyria belongs to the Assyrians. Isaiah 19:23-25

Nearly six million Assyrian Christians dot the world.
Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1, 300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC – in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14).
There it says:
* “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."

Ashur-Mesopotamia