The renovation of the ancient city of Ur in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar is expected to cost about $14.5 million.

Iraq begins preparations to build a new national museum in the Green Zone, expanding cultural spaces to showcase the ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD — An international archaeological mission has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash, in present-day southern Iraq ...

A researcher claims to have decoded an ancient set of symbols found in Iraq that have long puzzled experts. Image from the New York Public Library For over 100 years, archaeologists have been ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An international archeological mission has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash in southern Iraq. The ...

:: Ahmed Fakak al-Badrani, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Iraq "It is a great honor on this day to receive a large number of antiquities, including those brought over by the prime ...

IRBIL, Iraq – The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group’s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. For 1,400 ...

When an extreme drought caused a 3,400-year-old city to reemerge from a reservoir on the Tigris River in northern Iraq, archaeologists raced to excavate it before the water returned. The Bronze Age ...

For over 100 years, archaeologists have been flummoxed by a set of symbols discovered at an ancient temple in Iraq — until now. An expert on Mesopotamia says he has decoded the symbols, revealing a ...