Back when the war was just beginning, back when we hoped to be greeted as liberators, we first heard the reports of widespread looting throughout Baghdad. Libraries, public offices, museums were all ...

Electrochemical storage technologies are essential to modern life, fueling everything from smartphones to sustainable transportation. Yet, the roots of this technology extend deep into antiquity, far ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- For the director of a shuttered museum in a country at war, the imaginary can be a welcome refuge. Condemned to contemplate his own and his country's fate in great halls emptied of ...

The secretary-general of the Council of Ministers confirmed that Ur will turn its historic legacy into a cultural and tourism ...

Nobody at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad knows exactly how the stolen Sumerian tablets ended up in Peru. All that authorities in Lima could tell museum officials was that the three hand-size ...

Assyrian artefacts originally from Mosul are displayed at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad. (AFP) MOSUL/BOGOTA -- On Feb. 26, 2015, shocking footage emerged from northwestern Iraq of Daesh militants ...

manuscripts at the National Museum of Iraq and the nearby National Library were created over 9,000 years of human history -- art and ideas from some of the world’s earliest villages and cultures. But ...

Invitations have not yet been sent, but the Coalition Provisional Authority is about to stage the first art exhibition in post-war Iraq. The event, which is being planned for Thursday in Baghdad for ...

At a book launch event held at the AUB Archaeological Museum, the American University of Beirut Press (AUB Press) celebrated the publication of The Turn ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart as soldiers pile decapitated heads before ...

“Why did you do this?” After months of recovery efforts in the aftermath of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, a crowd of Iraqis gathered at the Baghdad Zoo are screaming at an American Army captain.