Carved ivories dating back almost 3,000 years, which were excavated with the help of novelist Agatha Christie, will go on show for the first time after being bought for £1.17 million by the British Museum in London.
The 6,000 treasures were discovered between 1949 and 1963 at Nimrud in what is now northern Iraq, in an excavation led by Sir Max Mallowan, one of Britain's most celebrated archaeologists.
His first wife, murder-mystery writer Christie, was in the excavation team and is known to have cleaned and preserved some of the objects, possibly using her face cream.
The ancient objects include carved decorative ivories for use on wooden furniture, as well as fragments of ivories used on horse trappings, statues and decorative boxes.
The Press Association: 3,000-year-old ivories go on show
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