Iraq will reopen later this month its renowned national museum, home to priceless artefacts plundered in the unchecked chaos following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, an Iraqi minister said.

Iraq on Monday partially reopened its National Museum, once a trove of artefacts dating back to the dawn of civilisation but which was plundered after the 2003 invasion while U.S. troops stood by.

Speaking at a conference on Iraqi cultural heritage in the northern Iraqi province of Mosul, Ali Obaid Shalgam, the head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, said the number of ...

Three ancient artworks that for years had been part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and are now thought to have been looted were returned on Monday to the Republic of Iraq, the ...

Community members gathered to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the looting and destruction of the Iraq Museum. The event took place yesterday evening at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art ...

April 19 -- It was the most important museum, housing the most important artifacts, in one of the richest archaeological regions in the world. Archaeologists say civilization began in Iraq — in ...

Assyrian antiquities dated around 3000 BC displayed in the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad on November 28, 2018. ( Sabah Arar/AFP) Iraq's General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage announced on ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy. View on euronews ...

BAGHDAD -- The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift: work to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes -- but not the abuses committed there by U ...

Top: Photo courtesy of Lillie Taimoorazy Archives. Middle: Erin Pinto (left) and Charlotte Capuano present their work at Stander Symposium in spring 2024. A photo from the exhibit organized by ...

All of the figures were either born, studied or buried in Najaf, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad. The city of roughly one million people is home to Iraq’s religious Shiite ...