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.

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 ...

The two rams sculpture originates from between 2600 BC and 2500 BC, while the carving of the woman's head dates from 2000 BC to 1600 BC. Both were given to the museum in 1989 by the Norbert ...

News Met Museum Returns Ancient Sumerian Statue to Iraq The move follows several high-profile seizures of artworks of questionable provenance by the Manhattan DA. Elaine Velie April 18, 2024 ...

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 ...

Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artefacts at Iraq's National Museum online, the Web search leader said on Tuesday, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...