In a Turkish village art from the Neo-Assyrian Empire was found carved into the limestone bedrock in a chamber below a house.
The authorities learned about the ancient chamber after Looters raided it for treasures in 2017, by creating a hole in the first floor of a two-story house in the village of Bashbuk, Turkey.
The figures of Assyrian deities, with names written in Aramaic, are displayed on a chamber carved into limestone bedrock which stretches for 98 feet (30 meters).
The procession of deities is led by Hadad, a storm god, with a three-pointed lightning rod and headdress with a five-pointed star. Next, is the goddess Atargatis, a fertility deity with a star-encrusted cylindrical double-horned crown. Six others follow, in various stages of completion.
Some 2,800 years ago, when the art was created, the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the dominant power in the region.
The looters were sent to jail.
And the full extent of the underground complex is yet to be discovered.
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| Chamber under a two-story house in the village of Bashbuk, Turkey |