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 ...

On 22nd anniversary, Iraq recalls National Museum looting (Apr 10, 2003). 15k+ items lost, 8k+ still missing despite recovery efforts. A major cultural tragedy.

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. I haven't returned to Baghdad to be a war tourist, attuning my eyes to the many long shadows cast by trauma, but it's ...