ALTHOUGH IT IS beginning to recover, Iraq is still suffering from the wars of the past decades. In 2023 about 45 people a month died violently, according to Iraq Body Count, a Britain-based monitor.

Much of Iraq’s modern art vanished after the U.S. invaded. A show of Baghdad’s 20th-century modernists helps fill in the ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...

When looters stripped the Iraq National Museum of everything moveable last week and left behind mostly broken pottery and statues, the world may have lost irreplaceable Akkadian and Assyrian ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Samuel M. Paley, archaeologist and professor of classics at the University at Buffalo, warns that a war with Iraq could destroy at least some of Iraq's ancient archaeological ...

In Baghdad last week, Iraqi citizens provided the international press with the "Kodak moment" of the war. After an American soldier covered the head of an enormous Saddam Hussein statue with an ...

Much of Syria's millennia-old city Palmyra, including its Arch of Triumph, was destroyed in 2015 by the so-called Islamic State.Rafal Cichawa/iStock In the mid-13th century, a Mongol invasion cut a ...

Mosul, Iraq -- The museum in Mosul is cold and unlit. Electricity is unreliable, and during one morning visit, a bomb exploded outside the building. But through the gloom, shadows form into shapes: ...

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 23 (Reuters Life) - A flattened human head draped with gold and lapis lazuli jewelry lies in a glass case at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, ...