Three neighborhoods near Erbil’s historic citadel will be renovated and transformed into museums and tourist sites, the ...

As the world’s earliest known civilization developed in Mesopotamia…as Genghis Khan worked to create the largest contiguous land empire in history…as the Ottomans occupied European and Asian lands for ...

Erbil Citadel is a fortified settlement on top of an imposing ovoid-shaped tell (a hill created by many generations of people living and rebuilding on the same spot) in the Kurdistan region, Erbil ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) — Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Monday hailed Erbil’s selection as Asia’s top ...

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ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - High on a rocky outcrop, just 50 miles from the fighting that is wrecking historic sites across Iraq, workers are busy laying out floor tiles, determined to save at least one ...

As fighting in Iraq intensifies and militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues its relentless assault, rumors are swirling that American forces have begun bombing the region, and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In the narrow alleys of Erbil’s bazaar, veteran craftsmen quietly shape qazwan - the seeds of the wild terebinth tree (Pistacia atlantica) - into prayer beads known as tasbih ...

Threats identified at the time of inscription of the property: Lack of survey, documentation and mapping of surviving surface buried archaeological remains of all types Slopes of the archaeological ...