Mosul’s renowned minaret restored from ravages of Islamic State
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...
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Abandoned Assyrian capital brought to life in new magnetic survey
A round 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose ...
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Iraq approves designs of largest new residential city
The Iraqi Minister of Construction approved on Monday the designs of the new Ali Al-Wardi residential city project in Baghdad.
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Writing on clay tablets — uncovered in Iraq — reveal hidden history of ancient city
One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information ... site of Kurd Qaburstan is the ancient city of regional capital Qabra, but much of the city’s history ...
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An Ancient City, From Agatha Christie to ISIS
When British archaeologist Max Mallowan investigated the neo-Assyrian site of Nimrud in northern Iraq ... The city of Nimrud, known as Calah in the Bible, became the capital of the neo-Assyrian ...