Read more about the article Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years
Photo shows an artifact that is believed to have been stolen during the pillaging of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003 and returned to Iraq by FBI, undated. Archaeologists believe the artifact, which stands only 2 1/4 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide, dates back 2,700 years. (FBI/Newsflash)

Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years

US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…

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Read more about the article Egypt Returns Priceless Coins Looted From Ancient Civilisations
Photo shows a jewellery of the Queen Ahhotep, which was displayed at the Egyptian Museum of Liberation in Cairo, Egypt, undated photo. Sabah Abdel Razek, director general of the museum, explained that this was the first time that these treasures were being displayed after having been in storage. (@tourismandantiq/Newsflash)

Egypt Returns Priceless Coins Looted From Ancient Civilisations

Egypt has returned nearly 200 ancient coins to their modern homelands after they were seized by officials being trafficked into the country. Envoys from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and China…

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Read more about the article Secrets Of Ancient Trade Routes Revealed
Image shows gold from the town of Poliochne, in Lemnos, Greece, undated photo. A total of 26 gold objects from the area were studied by the international team of researchers. (Ch. Schwall, OAI, OAW/Newsflash)

Secrets Of Ancient Trade Routes Revealed

Scientists are redrawing lines of ancient trade routes after discovering that 4,500-year-old gold in treasures found in both Troy and modern-day Iraq were mined in the same place. A new…

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Read more about the article Archaeologists Scramble To Investigate 3,400-Year-Old City Emerging From Tigris River In Iraq Before It Is Submerged Again
The archaeological site of Kemune in the dried-up area of the Mosul reservoir. (Universities of Freiburg and Tubingen, KAO/Newsflash)

Archaeologists Scramble To Investigate 3,400-Year-Old City Emerging From Tigris River In Iraq Before It Is Submerged Again

A team of archaeologists had to scramble to investigate a 3400-year-old city before it was submerged again after it emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to drought. Their…

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Read more about the article Iraqis Stop Drs Quarantining COVID Girls Over Honour
A Twitter user reported an alleged incident when a family attacked health workers to stop them from quarantining their daughter

Iraqis Stop Drs Quarantining COVID Girls Over Honour

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Strict religious families in Iraq are reportedly stopping their female relatives who have coronavirus from being quarantined in hospitals because of the “shame” it would bring to their “honour”. Ali…

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