Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Hundreds of Historic Texts Hidden in ISIS-Occupied Monastery By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | December 16, 2016 12:38pm ET "More than 400 texts, dating between the middle ages and modern times, have been saved at the Mar Behnam monastery, a place that the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) had occupied for more than two years, until November. The texts, which were written between the 13th and 20th centuries, were hidden behind a wall that was constructed just a few weeks before ISIS occupied and partly destroyed the Christian monastery, according to Amir Harrak, a professor at the University of Toronto who studied the texts before they were hidden away."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Ancient Babylon's Bricks Finding Their Way Into Modern Buildings AUTHOR Wassim Bassem POSTED December 15, 2016 BAGHDAD — "Every now and then Iraqis are surprised to find out that some of the new buildings in the city of Hillah, south of Baghdad, are still being built with antique bricks stolen over the past century from the ancient city of Babylon." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Buildings And Temple Dated To 3,000 BC Unearthed At Tel Zurghul In Iraq 12/29/2016 07:30:00 PM "The Italian archaeological campaign carried out by Sapienza University of Rome and Perugia University from 10 October to 1 December 2016 at Tel Zurghul, the site of ancient Nigin, one of the three main cities of the ancient Sumerian State of Lagash, has ended." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Pile of Skeletons Found Inside 2,400-Year-Old Tomb in Iraq By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | January 9, 2017 06:39am ET "A 2,400-year-old tomb filled with the skeletons of at least six people has been discovered in northern Iraq. Among the artifacts found in the tomb is a bracelet decorated with images of two snake heads peering at each other." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Islamic State Looting Uncovers Ancient Palace Beneath Jonah’s TombArchaeologists in Iraq find residence of biblical kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon in IS-dug tunnels beneath ruined shrine, according to reportBY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF AND AFPFebruary 28, 2017, 12:29 pmContinued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Film Footage of Excavations in Iraq "The RAS Collections hold only two reels of film. These have been digitised and are available to view.We are grateful to Amara Thornton and Michael McCluskey from the UCL, Filming Antiquity project for their insights into this film. The footage dates from the late 1920s/early 1930s and shows excavations in Iraq at the mound of Kouyunjik, scenes in the village of Nebi Yunus, across the Khosr river from Kouyunjik within the ancient city boundaries of Nineveh, and scenes in the city of Mosul, across the river Tigris from Nineveh. The footage (at present) has been attributed to Nineveh excavator Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941), a British Assyriologist, epigrapher and archaeologist."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Ancient Assyrian Tomb with 10 Skeletons Discovered in Iraq By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | March 28, 2017 06:28am ET "Construction workers accidentally discovered a vaulted tomb dating back to the time of the Assyrian Empire in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Ten skeletons were also found at the site. Inside the tomb, which was constructed with baked bricks, archaeologists discovered three ceramic sarcophagi holding two skeletons. Eight other skeletons were found on the ground around the tomb, said Goran M. Amin, director of the survey department at the Directorate of Antiquities in Erbil, who is leading the team that is excavating the tomb." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2017 ASOR Blog - April 2017 Potent Potables of the Past: Beer and Brewing in Mesopotamia By: Tate Paulette and Michael Fisher "In ancient Mesopotamia, people knew how to appreciate a good beer. They appreciated their beer often and often in large quantities. They sang songs and wrote poetry about beer. Sometimes they got drunk and threw caution to the wind. Beer was a gift from the gods, a marker of civilization, a dietary staple, a social lubricant, and a ritual necessity. It was produced on a massive scale and was consumed on a daily basis by people across the socio-economic spectrum. It was indeed “liquid bread,” a fundamental source of sustenance. But what gave beer its distinctive power and appeal was its inebriating effects."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Polish Researchers Filled an Archaeological Blank Spot in Northern Mesopotamia 29.05.2017 HISTORY & CULTURE "More than 200 previously unknown remains of villages and an ancient city have been discovered by Poznań archaeologists during a long-term research project in northern Mesopotamia - present day Iraqi Kurdistan. Scientists have concentrated their efforts on the western and eastern banks of the Great Zab in Iraqi Kurdistan. This is the area called Fertile Crescent, where more than 10 thousand years ago man domesticated plants and animals."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Sumerian Art and Modern Art from Gudea to Miró By Pedro Azara "Artists always turn to their predecessors for inspiration. The impact of Mesopotamia on Modern Art was as significant as it was unexpected. But it was a case of artists being inspired by “art” that had been created thousands of years earlier and for completely different purposes." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted August 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 Memories of Agatha Christie in Ruins of Ancient Assyrian City of Nimrud NIMRUD, Iraq - ReutersAugust 08, 2017 "Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud. The mud-brick house where the British author of “Murder on the Orient Express” once stayed is long gone. If she were alive today, she would probably be shocked by what has befallen the Assyrian city where she worked alongside her archaeologist husband five decades ago."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 June 2013, Cover Stories, Daily News A Remarkable Ancient Babylonian Tablet and Why it Matters Thu, Aug 24, 2017 The world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table may have been used by the Babylonians to build their great monuments and canals. UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES—"UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces and temples and build canals." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2017 How Ancient Babylonians Could Have Predicted the 2017 Eclipse "Though they believed the disappearing sun was a sign of divine wrath, Babylonians were already calculating the probability of eclipses 4,000 years ago" Ruth Schuster Aug 21, 2017 1:08 PM Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted September 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Lost City in Iraq Founded by Alexander the Great Discovered by Archaeologists Drone photography used to unearth dormant ruins Niamh McIntyre A Day Ago Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 @ Yale News Students ‘Visit’ a Lost Archaeological Treasure Via Virtual Reality By Karin Shedd September 25, 2017 "In mid-2015, members of the Islamic State terrorist group used barrel bombs to destroy much of an ancient archaeological site in northern Iraq. In mid-2017, a group of Yale students toured the site anyway."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2017 Archaeologists Find Cache of Assyrian Cuneiform Tablets in Iraq Oct 23, 2017 by News Staff / Source "Excavations led by a University of Tübingen archaeologist at the site of a recently-discovered Bronze Age settlement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq have uncovered almost 100 clay tablets dating back to the period of the Middle Assyrian Empire (1250 BC)." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2017 Excavation in Northern Iraq: Sasanian Loom Discovered November 6, 2017 " A team of Frankfurt-based archaeologists has returned from the Iraqi-Kurdish province of Sulaymaniyah with new findings. The discovery of a loom from the 5th to 6th century AD in particular caused a stir. The group of Near Eastern archaeology undergraduates and doctoral students headed by Prof. Dirk Wicke of the Institute of Archaeology at Goethe University were in Northern Iraq for a total of six weeks. It was the second excavation campaign undertaken by the Frankfurt archaeologist to the approximately three-hectare site of Gird-î Qalrakh on the Shahrizor plain, where ruins from the Sasanian and Neo-Assyrian period had previously been uncovered. The region is still largely unexplored and has only gradually opened up for archaeological research since the fall of Saddam Hussein." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 More on #67 Archaeological Treasures in Iraq Unearthed Just Before Deadly 7.3 Earthquake An ancient loom, a seal decorated with a griffin, and the remains of a stone watchtower are just some of the finds from a recent excavation in northern Iraq. BY JEN VIEGAS PUBLISHED ON 11/15/2017 11:51 AM EST "Iraq is the birthplace of numerous historic firsts. It is where the sailboat, wheel, and seed plow were invented. Lying within the Fertile Crescent, it is where cereal agriculture and commercial record keeping began. Even the concept of zero and 360-degree circles were formulated in what is now Iraq."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2017 Winter 2018, Featured Articles, Daily News A 4,000-Year-Old Footprint, and a Treasure House Makeover Fri, Dec 22, 2017 "No one knows the name. Dead for 4,000 years, this ancient person left a legacy that is now enshrined behind glass in a case that will soon be viewed by thousands of people beginning in April, 2018. It is a solidified imprint of a human foot, originally set in a newly molded wet mud brick that, once dried, became one of many building blocks used in the construction of the ancient city of Ur in present-day Iraq. The footprint-endowed mud brick will grace the entrance of a space designed to introduce an astonishing array of treasures reflecting some of the world's first achievements in urban civilization."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Beneath Biblical Prophet's Tomb, an Archaeological Surprise By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | February 18, 2018 11:49am ET "Deep inside looters' tunnels dug beneath the Tomb of Jonah in the ancient Iraq city of Nineveh, archaeologists have uncovered 2,700-year-old inscriptions that describe the rule of an Assyrian king named Esarhaddon." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2018 Rain in Iraq Ends Drought, Uncovers Historic Ruins Wednesday, 28 February, 2018 - 06:15 Baghdad - Asharq Al-Awsat "The heavy rains that hit Iraq over the past two weeks have not only put an end to the dry season, which has almost dried up the historic Tigris River, but it also helped uncover hundreds of historical ruins that were washed away in Babylon, one of the country’s most important archaeological sites."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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