A battle has erupted to save the archaeological site of Tell Al Sayyagh, part of the ancient city of Kufa in Iraq. The fierce discussion hinges on a growing issue in the country: the so-called ...

A stunning archaeological discovery has been made in the ruins of ancient Nineveh, now part of Mosul, Iraq. A massive stone ...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office said the objects had been identified as illicit during an investigation of an art ...

New evidence from a probe into British antiquities dealer Robin Symes confirmed the pieces were trafficked and rightfully ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

For decades, three prized items told stories of ancient Mesopotamia from behind museum glass in foreign lands. Now, they are ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know ...

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief ...

Three ancient artifacts from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were officially returned to Iraq on Monday ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.