Modern revamp threatens to raze riverfront in Mosul’s Old City. Locals fear authorities’ plan to transform historic city into a modern investment hub will erase Mosul’s rich heritage.

Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during ...

In 2017, the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS razed the city to the ground. Approximately 10,000 civilians died. Their families have spent the past five years trying to bring their city back.

Mosul Cultural Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah was one of its first ... engineering and design studies that would be needed to rehabilitate the building and remake it into a modern museum.

ISIS nearly destroyed the Mosul Cultural Museum in 2014. Nearly 10 years later, it rises from the rubble, and will soon reopen to the world. ISIS nearly destroyed the museum in 2014.

Much of Mosul's east has made a modest recovery, but the west -- home to the Old City and the museum -- remains in ruins. Recommended For You Music 2025-04-16T18:56:09+00:00 ...

Lots of it is under modern Mosul, and there remains a huge amount to rediscover. Written sources do, however, give glimpses of how the place must have bustled and thrived. Historian Mario Liverani, in ...

The seven carved gypsum panels are believed to originally come from the Southwest Palace at Nineveh, near modern Mosul in northern Iraq, and date to the time of Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 705 ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, ... a noble who fought the early crusaders from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq. It was built in 1172-73, ...

A University of Mosul history professor told the Associated Press extremists began destroying the library – established in 1921 and symbolic of the birth of modern Iraq – earlier this month.

Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during ...