Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...
From February 28, 2024 to January 12, 2025, the IMA unveils Baghdad: Rediscovering Madinat al-Salam, with Assassin's Creed Mirage, a groundbreaking exhibition that blends video games and history ...
This summer , on a visit home, I went to hear the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre, in the Karradah district of Baghdad. The theatre has a roof shaped like a ... was painted ...
The so-called Baghdad Battery is among the most mysterious ... In 1938, Wilhelm König, then the director of the National Museum of Iraq, posited a theory that captured the imagination of many.
Since the Baghdad museum looting, many of the looted treasures have been returned ... The National Park Service is tasked with protecting more than 430 park sites, all of which interpret, manage and ...
With no electricity in Baghdad, he said, museum operators had yet to make a full assessment of the now-unlit underground vaults in which they had stashed many pieces for safekeeping as war came.
Both a research institution and a fabulous museum, The Natural History Museum opened in Alfred Waterhouse’s purpose-built Romanesque cathedral of nature on the Cromwell Road in 1881. Joined by ...
People clear away mud from inside a flood damaged cemetery on the outskirts of Valencia, Spain, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 after flooding in the region. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz) (AP) A man reacts as he ...
Part of the cultural fabric of London, the Natural History Museum opened its doors for the first time in 1881. I have fond memories of my parents taking me there as a young child and then doing so ...
The work of one of the Natural History Museum’s researchers has been recognised in the name of a new species. The 450-million-year-old Lomankus edgecombei reveals that an ancient group of arthropods ...
For the final three decades of his life, the self-taught Dutch artist Joris Hoefnagel drew his way through the known natural world, one creature at a time. The result was a multi-volume manuscript ...
Findysz said he began collecting cars at age 14. The museum reflects his lifelong passion for automotive history. "It took us 10 years to find this 77,000-square-foot building," he said.