Mosul who jostle there: Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Iraqi Jews, Kurdish Jews, Iraqi Turkmens, Armenians, Yazidi, Mandeans, Romani and Shabaks. The Mosul Museum contains many interesting finds from the ancient sites of the old Assyrian capital cities Nineveh and Nimrud. The Mosul Museum is a beautiful old building, around a courtyard and with an impressive façade of Mosul marble containing displays of Mosul life depicted in tableau form. Recently, On February 26, 2015, IS militants destroyed the ancient Assyrian artifacts of the museum. The English writer Agatha Christie lived in Mosul whilst her second husband, Max Mallowan, an archaeologist, was involved in
Venus figurines of Gönnersdorf always in profile without a head. The Montastruc decorated stone (Palart 518) in the British Museum has similar stylization. Venus figurines of Gönnersdorf The Venus figurines from Gönnersdorf, at Neuwied, are paleolithic sculptures depicting the female body. Gerhard Bosinski led the excavations between 1968 and 1976 at Neuwied a town on the Rhine in Germany. The figures consist of carved bone, antler or Mammoth tusk ivory. They are between 15,000 and 11,500 years old and stem from the Magdalenian period. These figurines are between 5.4 and 8.7 cm long. At the same place many engravings of animals, human beings and