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Chaldean workmen excavating at Khorsabad, 1861 engraving

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1861

Engraving of workmen digging out and hauling a winged bull at Khorsabad, described on Commons as a Chaldean excavating, from Le Tour du monde (1861). The local Christian workforce of the 19th-century digs.

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Wikimedia Commons (from Le Tour du monde, vol. 4, 1861)

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Chaldean workmen excavating at Khorsabad, 1861 engraving

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