This low-relief limestone carving, dating to c.2400 BC, formed part of a larger votive wall plaque in a Sumerian temple in southern…
Five years on from the US occupation of Iraq, archaeologists have been attempting to quantify the scale of the damage to heritage…
Professor Roger Matthews, gives the low-down on Uruk-Warka in Iraq, seemingly the birth-place of writing and appears in the Bible…
The Iraq school is in many ways in even a worse situation than the EES, as they are more reliant on Academy…
A medieval site of massive industry: the once-booming and cosmopolitan city of Raqqa, on the banks of the Euphrates, Syria…
Excavations in north-west palace at Nimrud reveal burial of Queen Yaba, the Queen of Tiglath-pileser III, and her successors…
A s the recent elections have shown, there are few items more controversial than the war in Iraq. Do we see it…
John Curtis sends a postcard from Baghdad considering heritage work after the Iraq war…