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Decorated glazed bricks almost 3,000 years old are on display at Iran’s National Museum after a four-decade search disrupted by war and an international legal battle. Lions and winged cows with human heads, horses and bulls with a goat’s horn, kneeling men and women, and other mythological figures decorate the work created by the Mannaeans who lived in northwestern Iran in the first millennium BC. The 51 square bricks are painted with a glazed coating on a black, brown, light blue, yellow or white background. Their discovery and repatriation “is a series of incredible adventures,” said Youssef Hassanzadeh, an archeologist with the museum. It

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