Climate change is significantly affecting ancient cities in southern Iraq, wiping away thousands of years of history.

Southern Illinois University’s Department of Theater and Dance brought raw emotion and thought-provoking storytelling to the ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cultic space at the site of Kani Shaie in Iraq. This monumental ...

For Assyrians in today's Iraq, this monumental event holds profound lessons and inspiration. The Egyptian example ...

Iraq's ancient Mesopotamian sites face erosion from climate change, threatening cultural heritage and archaeological ...

These wetlands in the southern part of the country were once among the world’s most distinctive landscapes, nurturing an ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Archaeologist Eckart Frahm didn't have much time to determine where the 4,000-year-old clay tablets had come from. Homeland Security officials had given him just 2 1/2 days in a dimly lit New York ...

BAGHDAD (AP) – Islamic State extremists at Iraq’s ancient city of Hatra destroyed the archaeological site by smashing sledgehammers into its walls and shooting Kalashnikov assault rifles at priceless ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at ...