Inside Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, glimmers of a once vibrant and beautiful metropolis strive to shine through its bomb-blasted structures. In October 2016, two years after the Islamic State ...

Established in 1952 and designed by modernist architect Mohamed Makiya, the Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) is the second largest in Iraq and home to vast collections of prehistoric, Assyrian, Hatran, and ...

Fakhri al-Tai and his family live among some 5,000 antiques in Mosul. His home has now turned into a public makeshift museum, aiming to preserve the city's heritage. After many artefacts were ...

A video released on Thursday by ISIS shows members of the terrorist organization destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts at the Mosul Museum and the nearby Nineveh archaeological site. “The prophet ...

When Islamic State gunmen stormed the Mosul Cultural Museum and filmed themselves taking sledgehammers to 3,000-year-old Assyrian statues in 2015, museum director Zaid Ghazi watched the images online ...

(BBC) -- The deliberate cultural vandalism committed by Islamic State (IS) militants shocked and appalled the world after they took over Mosul in Iraq in 2014. Now, the restoration of the recaptured ...

An ISIS militant uses a power tool to destroy an Assyrian winged bull at the Mosul Museum, Iraq. Ten years ago, the world witnessed a tragic moment as Daesh, a terrorist organization, filmed the ...

A worker helps reassemble an artefact bearing cuneiform inscriptions at the Mosul museum in northern Iraq - Copyright AFP Zaid AL-OBEIDI A worker helps reassemble an ...

The Mosul Museum, located in Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, is a significant cultural institution dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the region. Originally founded in 1952, the museum has ...

And I'm Melissa Block. As Sunni insurgents have swept through Iraq seizing cities, they've also begun destroying ancient artifacts. Shrines, tombs and statues that the group ISIS believes are against ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul is in ruins. Piles of rubble fill exhibition halls and a massive fire in the building's basement has reduced hundreds of rare books ...

It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.