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As some of its walls crumble, preservationists are fighting to preserve the past. By Jane Arraf BABYLON, Iraq — Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of ...

Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire, Babylon was a provincial administration center and ...

The site of Babylon was first identified in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations, undertaken by the German archaeologist Robert Koldewey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

Wild Frontiers is breaking down barriers and bringing people from different cultures together with its latest trip: a tour ...

Three ancient artifacts from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were officially returned to Iraq on Monday ...

Home to a wealth of attractions — including the ancient ruins of Babylon, the Mesopotamian Marshes and the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan — Iraq is often dubbed the “cradle of civilization ...