The press release suggests these hand axes could be 1.5 million years old. Iraq history in dried ancient lake Researchers have been exploring Iraq's Western Desert to decode its geomorphological ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq.

Iraq has faced significant looting of its antiquities over decades of conflict and instability, and while many ancient archaeological sites remain inadequately protected, the government has been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to ...

Iraq's foreign minister declared the successful retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland.

BAGHDAD -- Islamic State militants continued their campaign targeting cultural heritage sites in territories they control in northern Iraq, looting and damaging the ancient city of Hatra just one ...

A German archaeological team has uncovered graves, skeletal remains, and pottery at the ancient site of Ashur in northern Iraq, as part of an ongoing excavation in coordination with Iraq's Ministry of ...

More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister's office, the antiquities ...

BAGHDAD — The videos of the Daesh (the so-called IS) militants destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq’s museums and blowing up 3,000-year-old temples are chilling enough, but one of Iraq’s top ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now an international ...

BAGHDAD - Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages - from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to ...

Cultural heritage has become a cornerstone of Iraq's post-Saddam foreign policy. But that same heritage can be more divisive at home. The post Iraq's Cultural Heritage Can Be a Double-Edged Sword ...