Ella Egberts (VUB) traveled to Iraq in November and December as part of a pilot project to search for archaeological surface ...

to help save cultural landmarks in Iraq and Syria that were at risk of being destroyed by the Islamic State’s continuous atrocities. Recent digging at this major archaeological site has shown ...

Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early ...

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the colossal task they face ...

A team of archaeologists from Durham University in the U.K. and the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq, led by Dr. William Deadman, a specialist in archaeological remote sensing, made the ...

Life in the ancient Bronze Age city of Kurd Qaburstan, an ancient Mesopotamian site in present-day Iraq, has long been a mystery to archaeologists due to limited research and a lack of historical ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was destroyed by fighters of the so-called Islamic State after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria ...

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Kurd Qaburstan is a large archaeological site that spans more than 247 acres and is located southwest of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Natalie Demaree is a McClatchy National Real-Time ...

On May 2, 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, London’s Metropolitan Police raided an antiquities dealer and seized eight artifacts they believed had been obtained through illicit channels.

The Basra Museum in southern Iraq opened its doors this April, another step towards restoring the country's cultural heritage. Ancient artifacts damaged and stolen in conflicts dating back almost ...