Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...

An ISIS militant uses a power tool to destroy an Assyrian winged bull at the Mosul Museum, Iraq. Ten years ago, the world witnessed a tragic moment as Daesh, a terrorist organization, filmed the ...

The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.

In the Chaldean church of St Paul - he concludes - a small museum has been set up that traces the Pope's visit and in Mosul a cultural centre has been founded that bears Francis‘ name’.

Erbil’s museum is a hub of a vast collection of archaeological ... making it the fourth-largest town in Iraq after Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad. The city’s primary industry is building and ...

arguing that blurbs don't reflect a title's true merit The world's most-visited museum is spotlighting clothing and accessories from 45 fashion houses and designers Eight years after the Iraqi ...

Ten years ago, in February 2015, the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) released a chilling video documenting militants using sledgehammers to destroy statues and artifacts inside the Mosul Museum. This ...

Assyria, which was located in Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first empire. It existed from 2000 BCE to 612 BCE, and ...

Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the ... carved in the city of Nineveh – on the outskirts of modern-day Mosul in northern Iraq – ...

New security measures around sites such as the Aleppo National Museum further indicate a recognition of the ... Iraq’s experience with IS’s destruction of Mosul and the rebuilding of the Great Mosque ...

While the Syrian developments with takeover of power by the rebel groups benefited a number of regional and international ...