In this alabaster bas-relief, grooms appear to lead horses towards a screened enclosure within which a royal chariot is being prepared for the hunt. Men are struggling to push one of the horses into position while another horse is having his harness tightened. From Room C of the North Palace, Nineveh (modern-day Kouyunjik, Mosul Governorate), Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 645-535 BCE. The British Museum, London. Photo©Osama S.M. Amin.