Hamdani, who served as Iraq’s culture minister from 2018 to 2020, played a vital role in rescuing, restoring and cataloguing the country’s ancient heritage

A new World Monuments Fund project in conjunction with the US embassy in Baghdad aims to repair Iraqi cultural heritage as part of the Future of Babylon project

Treasure trove of ancient Mesopotamian heritage—ransacked after 2003 Iraq invasion—was closed during anti-government protests in 2019

Artefacts had been "smashed into pieces" by Isis militants when they occupied the Unesco World Heritage site as a training camp

The millennia-old prism and tablet were found to lack proper paperwork—one after its owner’s death, the other following an online auction

The photographer’s images of a cosmopolitan Baghdad before the rise of Saddam Hussein have been rediscovered in recent years

Ten teams from international universities and museums will visit the Dhi Qar region in October for further excavations

The terrorist group destroyed 350 churches and persecuted Iraqi Christians in 2014

Painstaking reconstruction by multi-agency task force is salvaging what artefacts remain after Islamic State occupation

Institution has been faulted for a lack of oversight in determining what artefacts were legally exported and sold

Through videos, audio clips, 3D models of destroyed sites and images of their works, Iraqis describe what they endured and their hopes for the future

Foundation will direct $700,000 to emergency scaffolding, sensors and the drafting of a longer-term conservation plan

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas voices “relief” at release of Hella Mewis, an arts manager living in Baghdad who works to promote young Iraqi artists

Hella Mewis, who works to promote young Iraqi artists, was abducted yesterday by unidentified men in the centre of the city

Initiative involves local communities in rebuilding their historic landmarks and neighbourhoods

The international market is now “absolutely awash” with forgeries, says British Museum curator who examined the hoard

After setbacks related to ISIS's offensive, preservationists in northern Iraq report progress

The US is signatory to The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which forbids any act of hostility to cultural property

Sites targeted range from a Yemeni palace in ruins to a shrine destroyed by the Islamic State in Iraq

We look back at the major events that made the headlines this year

Archaeologists say the tablets, unearthed nearly a century ago, are akin to receipts

From studio spaces to museums, a future complex holds the promise of galvanising artists

Iraqi-Kurdish artist Serwan Baran supports the move by the Ruya Foundation, saying “the people will prevail as long as we are with them”

Iraqi culture ministry announces new national museum in Baghdad as Mosul restoration plan is extended to historic churches

Dia al-Azzawi's Sabra and Shatila Massacre has been commissioned by a Lebanese art foundation as an "archive of history"

The oil company will support one exhibition at the museum next year, but not a show dedicated to the people of the Arctic

The Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, Syria’s Raqqa Museum and Mosul libraries all safeguarded

Recreations of lost Assyrian reliefs will be on show in Whitechapel Gallery exhibition

Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia rooms open with support from UK government's Cultural Protection Fund

She was a key figure in the post-war re-establishment of Iraq’s antiquities museums