Showing posts with label Iraq National Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq National Museum. Show all posts
October 30, 2018

Recoverable or Not? The sale of the Assyrian gypsum relief of a winged Genius, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, circa 883-859 BCE

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In March 2015, the Iraqi government formally announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL had purposefully destroyed mu...
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April 12, 2015

An Updated Analysis of What Remains of Nimrud's NorthWest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II

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Photo by Mustafa Al Najjar As news of the Nimrud explosion video produced by Daash, ISIL, Deash, ISIS, Daaesh, Islamic State gets pres...
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May 13, 2014

Exhibit Review: "Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past" at the Royal Ontario Museum June 2013 – January 2014

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By Dr. Susan Douglas, professor at the University of Guelph, Canada and ARCA writer-in-residence 2013 In April 2003, the plunde...
August 5, 2011

Katharyn Hanson on “Looting at Archaeological Sites During Conflict: Iraq’s Cultural Heritage as a Case Study”

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by Kirsten Hower, ARCA Intern Katharyn Hanson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago, concentrating her studies in Mesopotamian ...
August 4, 2011

Larry Rothfield on What Museums and Archaeological Sites can to do protect themselves during times of upheaval and lessons learned from Cairo

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by Jessica Graham Nielsen, ARCA Intern Larry Rothfield, a writer-in-residence during the ARCA postgraduate program in Art and Crime Stu...
March 19, 2011

A Post in the Memory of Donny George, the former Director of the Iraq Museum

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Donny George, the former director of the Iraq Nation Museum who tried to stop the looting in 2003, died on March 12 in Canada. You may read ...
February 25, 2009

Iraq's National Museum resumes limited operations

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The National Museum in Baghdad officially reopened, as a “working institution,” but it is not yet open to the public. Security risks loom la...
February 20, 2009

Iraq's National Museum nears re-opening

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Iraq’s National Museum is scheduled to open on Monday, 2/23, unless it isn’t . Controversy rages over which ministry controls the museum, a...