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The Race to Find a Lost Iraqi City Before Looters Strip It Bare
In 2017, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit with the curious title of the United States of America vs. Approximately Four ...
Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir decreased. (photo Ismael Adnan/AFP via Getty Images) Low water levels ...
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Archaeologists from Germany have returned from northern Iraq without museum-ready artifacts but with rare insight into how faiths once shared the same ground. The work was led by Dr. Alexander Tamm of ...
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Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted peacefully in 5th-century Iraq, archaeologists suggest
The team of archaeologists led by Dr. Alexander Tamm (FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Dirk Wicke (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt) ...
Iraq's cultural authorities have revealed a discovery that could redefine the scale of Assyrian art: a six-meter-tall winged bull, or lamassu, recently uncovered in Mosul. The find, announced by ...
Nebuchadnezzar II claimed divine inspiration for his restoration work, stating that the gods Zababa and Ishtar motivated him to undertake the project. After completing the renovations, he proclaimed: ...
(THE CONVERSATION) For excavators – archaeologists, but also looters like the Islamic State, or ISIS – the opportunity for discovery in modern Iraq and Syria is dazzling. The countries lie within the ...
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