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 ...

The arduous process, says the Smithsonian’s Richard Kurin, is “a victory over violent extremism” Dr. Richard Kurin | Ambassador at Large, Smithsonian Institution. Author, History by a Hair Engineers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week marked the anniversary of ISIS's attack on the Mosul Cultural Museum. Archaeologist and Mosul Cultural Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah and the museum's head of conservation, Saad Ahmed ...

Mosul's celebrated museum has not recovered since Islamic State group jihadists ravaged its ancient treasures several years ago, but part of the complex reopened Tuesday to showcase more contemporary ...

Mosul Museum in Iraq is launching its first exhibition since the so-called Islamic State smashed its ancient, priceless exhibits on video in February 2015. “Return to Mosul: Conflict, Reconciliation ...

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 ...

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 ...

IS pushed over this Assyrian sculpture before defacing the cuneiform writing with jackhammers. (MEE/Tom Westcott) Five years ago, Mosul Museum grabbed international headlines when the Islamic State ...

The Mosul Museum, where IS militants filmed themselves smashing priceless antiquities to dust, partially re-opened in January. But apart from occasional contemporary art exhibits such as that of Iraqi ...

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