These wetlands in the southern part of the country were once among the world’s most distinctive landscapes, nurturing an ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

One of three clay cuneiform tablets discovered at the Middle Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan in northeast Iraq. It was found in a debris-filled corridor in the lower town palace. Early ...

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Ancient medical texts found in Iraq reveal how Mesopotamian healers sometimes sent patients to sanctuaries as part of treatment.

An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...

Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, stated that the recovered items include "the statue of the sun god, Maran Shamash, and rare murals from the 8th century B.C.

Archaeologist Eckart Frahm didn't have much time to determine where the 4,000-year-old clay tablets had come from. Homeland Security officials had given him just 2 1/2 days in a dimly lit New York ...

(AINA) -- The reopening of the Egyptian Museum stands as a powerful symbol of cultural rebirth and national pride. Egypt, one of the world's oldest civilizations, has long recognized that the ...