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How Iraqi engineer Azzam Alwash left California to restore Iraq's ancient marshes after decades of destruction

In 2003, Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi-born civil engineer who had spent decades building a comfortable life in California, left his wife and two daughters in Los Angeles and returned to a country still in the middle of war, determined to undo one of the most deliberate environmental disasters of the…

The Times of India

Elamite helmet with divine figures: A warrior king's 3,500-year-old bronze armor depicting a raptor and gold-plated gods

This bronze helmet has been decorated with ancient deities from a civilization that flourished before the Persian Empire took over the area that is now Iran.

LiveScience

Hafta x South Central: Highs & lows of media in 2025, influencers in news, Arnab’s ‘turnaround’

For this special year-ender episode, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande and The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna are joined by columnist and media critic Santosh Desai.

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50 Examples Of Brilliant Infrastructure That Are A Testimony To Human Ingenuity (New Pics)

Are these the coolest infrastructure pics you've ever seen or what?

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Meskalamdug's Helmet: One of the world's oldest helmets depicts a Mesopotamian prince's man bun

This 15-karat gold helmet was discovered in a royal tomb at Ur, but it may only have been worn for ceremonial purposes.

LiveScience

Sun Chariot: An ornate Bronze Age treasure that may have featured in an ancient Nordic religious ceremony

This gold-covered bronze object may depict a "divine" horse pulling the sun behind it.

LiveScience

Ram in the Thicket: A 4,500-year-old gold statue from the royal cemetery at Ur

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

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The world’s first museum was curated by a princess. A tour reveals the origins of the zodiac, calculus and writing

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, a boundary stone and a mace head. The items, which show signs of preservation, date from around 2100 BCE to 600 BCE. This collection, it is generally thought, was…

The Conversation

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

The Guardian - UK

Queen Puabi's lyre: A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 years ago

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

LiveScience

7,000-year-old alien-like figurine from Kuwait a 'total surprise' to archaeologists

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia.

LiveScience

Israel and the Puritans: A dark mirror

When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?

Salon

Iraq Builds New Church In Ancient Ur To Attract Pilgrims

Iraq unveils plans to build a new church in ancient Ur to attract Christian pilgrims and promote religious tourism, showcasing its rich religious history.

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Twenty years after the US invasion, where are Iraq’s antiquities?

Thousands of artefacts are being shipped back to Iraq, but many more were taken during the post-invasion looting.

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In Search of Enheduanna, the Woman Who Was History’s First Named Author

It was a random morning in November, and Enheduanna was trending. Suddenly, the ancient Mesopotamian priestess, who had been dead for more than 4,000 years, was a hot topic online as word spread that the first individually named author in human history was … a woman? That may have been…

The Guardian - UK

From inventors to adventurers and a warrior nun: Kate Mosse on 10 forgotten women who helped shape the world

Women’s achievements and contributions have been routinely neglected, overlooked or misattributed. In my new book, I tell the story of 1,000 of these extraordinary characters missing from history. Here are just a few

Bangkok Post

Rarely-identified object

Launched at Baselworld 1997, the first Urwerk watches featured the minimalistic "wandering hour", recalling a satellite or planet moving across the sky.

The Guardian - UK

Ancient metal tubes unearthed in 1897 could be oldest surviving drinking straws

Gold and silver tubes, each more than a metre long, were discovered in North Caucasus

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