Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...

An ISIS militant uses a power tool to destroy an Assyrian winged bull at the Mosul Museum, Iraq. Ten years ago, the world witnessed a tragic moment as Daesh, a terrorist organization, filmed the ...

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as well as artifacts at the Mosul Museum. Churches, mosques, and religious sites also succumbed to the group’s violence. The tomb of Jonah was destroyed in the summer of 2014, soon after ISIS ...

Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again Eli Wizevich History Correspondent A ceremony at the the ...

The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.

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As Iraqi forces fight to take back Mosul from the Daesh group, archaeologists trained by the British Museum are preparing for another battle - trying to save what they can of the city's heritage.

Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.

An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual ... seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalising or destroying a swathe of cultural sites across the country.