On the murky trail of a missing genie, ... one of the great strongholds of Mesopotamia, near Mosul in modern day Iraq. During the 1990s, ... Assyrian winged-genie from Nimrud Credit: Brooklyn Museum.

Kanishk Tharoor goes on the murky trail of the missing Genie of Nimrud – a huge, 3,000-year-old carved figure that once protected a palace. It disappeared about 20 years ago, only to re-emerge ...