The artefacts, cylinder and stamp seals dating back thousands of years, were seized after a US collector tried to sell one in an online auction The Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan’s ...

Archaeologists are painstakingly putting together artefacts at Nimrud shattered by Islamic State jihadists, undaunted by the ...

National Museum Of Iraq Reopens As ISIS Threat Casts Dark Shadow The Baghdad museum, home to many of Iraq's cultural treasures, had been closed since 2003.

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Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist ... The Baghdad ...