It is the smell of burning candles and incense floating with the gentle breeze that greets you as you slowly climb the stone ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115m programme ...

Iraq’s interior ministry said on Sunday that the country’s border with Syria is “completely secured” from movements of the ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

Bigley, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed and in numerous ... USAID officials had blocked proposals totaling $5 million from two groups, the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee and Catholic University ...

A steam pipe two and a half inches in diameter, for conveying the steam to the mill, passed through the wall of the boiler ... containing the Nineveh marbles, was fired in a similar manner ...

We tend to remember the successes. To this day the paradigm remains Heinrich Schliemann, whose faith in the historicity of the Trojan War led him to identify the walls of Troy and to gaze on what he ...