:: Ahmed Fakak al-Badrani, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Iraq "It is a great honor on this day to receive a large number of antiquities, including those brought over by the prime ...

Nearly 400 archaeological artifacts have been uncovered in Iraq’s Babil province after heavy rainfall exposed ancient remains ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IRAQI MINISTER OF CULTURE, HASSAN NADHEM, SAYING: "This last recovery is the third of its kind, it's important. You know, there was a recovery in the July 2021, when Iraq ...

Iraq has retrieved over 40,000 stolen ancient artifacts smuggled outside of the country in the past four years from around the world, according to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities.

Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in ...

The Iraqi government has recovered more than 6,000 historical artifacts that were smuggled out of the country, a high-level Iraqi official said on Wednesday. Speaking at a conference on Iraqi cultural ...

The “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet,” a 3,500-year-old clay cuneiform that was acquired by the arts and crafts chain store Hobby Lobby in 2014, has been forfeited to the United States, the Department of ...

A Middle Eastern expert and Princeton graduate alumnus was sentenced Monday for attempting to smuggle 4,000-year-old artifacts looted from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad into the ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- ISIS extremists have reveled in destroying ancient shrines and antiquities, posting videos on social media of their vandalism. In an odd twist, however, they've inadvertently uncovered ...

Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the retrieval of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in ...

More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister’s office, the antiquities ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Federal prosecutors say Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the ...