Science: Archaeology: Regional: Middle East: Iraq

Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line.

A description of University of Chicago excavations at Nippur. Includes: annual reports, articles and images.

Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite.

Museum exhibit with archived information about C. Leonard Woolley's excavation of the royal tombs at Ur. Related images. Discussion of Woolley's theory of the Great Flood.

By gathering all available data on persons and personal names in the Neo-Assyrian period, PNA is a research tool that makes this large body of information accessible to Assyriologists and scholars in related fields.

A short description of the ancient city of Agade.

From the Art Newspaper, the Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire.

From the Guardian, Iraq urges Germany today to return chunks of Babylon shipped to Berlin at the beginning of the last century in a heritage seizure which makes Britain's removal of the Parthenon Marbles look tame.

Renewed conflict could boost looting of Mesopotamia, archaeologists fear.

From Guardian Unlimited, an American archaeologist urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq.

From The Art Newspaper, Iraqi museum conservators are to receive intensive training at the British Museum to help them restore their damaged objects.

From Space.com, suggests evidence that a giant comet impact and associated meteor storms could have wiped out early civilizations and caused a great flood.

The British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project focused on the Babylonian texts from Nineveh (Kouyunjik) is investigating the kind of Babylonian compositions the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE) ordered to include into his royal library and their relation to the rest of the Kouyunjik Collection and to the king's collecting activities

Translation, transliteration, and drawing ot tablet.

Archeological findings, this article originally appeared in Al-Rafidan, Vol. XIV, 1993.

A report of the excavations by the Oriental Institute at Khorsabad from 1928 to 1935.