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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The video showing the destruction of ancient works, including statues from the UNESCO world heritage site Hatra, is among the latest attacks on significant artifacts by the Islamist extremists. ISIS ...

The Economist is collaborating with Project Mosul, a group dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage, in using virtual reality (VR) to reconstruct the historical sites and artefacts from Iraq ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on the looting and vandalism that took its toll on the Mosul Museum in Northern Iraq. The museum housed many priceless artifacts that are now lost. U.S. military commanders ...

Saad Ahmed, the Mosul Cultural Museum’s head of conservation (left), and Zaid Ghazi Saadullah, the museum’s director, examine a wood cenotaph in the Mosul Cultural Museum’s Islamic Hall in February ...

(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 ...