Nearby were displayed huge magnificent murals from Nimrud. This was the ancient city the ‘Isis’ fanatics have recently blown up. It was fortunate that the British had brought at least some of the massive statues and murals from Nimrud to London all those years ago.
Everyone depicted in these ancient murals looks sideways - a technique which has survived in cinematic convention to this day: ‘Don’t look at the camera!’, the actors are told.
And the subject of these murals? Battles. So what has changed?