After it had been buried, the cylinder lay undisturbed for more than 2, 400 years until it was dug up in 1879 by a British Museum excavation led by Hormuzd Rassam.

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And Ahmed Rassam, who was arrested in 1999, trying to cross into the U.S. from Canada, had explosives in his car's trunk and confessed to wanting to blow up the Los Angeles International Airport.

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