Not long ago, Iraq was viewed as a kind of hell on Earth. But the country has recovered its stability, and the government is ...

A statue of King Shalmaneser III dating back to the Hellenistic period 858 - 824 B.C.) is displayed at the Iraqi National ...

That 4,000-year-old lament sounded all too contemporary in April as Baghdad mobs stormed Iraq’s National Museum, broke heads off ancient statues, ransacked files and made off with an unknown ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --U.S. soldiers were standing guard Wednesday at Iraq's National Museum, where widespread looting broke out after the fall of Baghdad last week. On Wednesday morning ...

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad. The antiquities ...

All the looting at Baghdad's Iraq Museum had taken place by the time U.S. troops—engaged in toppling Saddam Hussein—arrived to protect it, on April 16, 2003. Between April 8, when the museum ...

For further study, Solecki’s crew excavated a block of sediment and transported it on top of a taxi for analysis at the Baghdad Museum, where it remains today. Earlier in the last decade, the Kurdish ...

National Museum Of Iraq Reopens As ISIS Threat Casts Dark Shadow The Baghdad museum, home to many of Iraq's cultural treasures, had been closed since 2003.