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Britain To Return Looted 4,000-Year-Old Plaque To Iraq
Britain will hand back a 4,000-year-old sculpture to Iraq after an investigation found that it had been looted, the British Museum said on Monday.
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Iraqi Forces Retake Main Government Offices, Museum In Mosul
Iraqi forces said on Tuesday that they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city's west from terrorists.
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Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.
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Iraq Reopens Baghdad Museum After 12 Years
Iraq's national museum officially reopened today after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led invasion were recovered.
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Track Down Antiquities After Islamic State Museum Rampage: Iraq
Islamic State militants who destroyed priceless antiquities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have kept some artefacts to sell, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said today, vowing to prevent the radical Islamists from smuggling them to market.
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UNESCO Demands Crisis Meet Over Iraq Heritage Destruction
The head of the United Nations' cultural agency on Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the world body's Security Council following the mass destruction by jihadists of ancient artefacts in Iraq.
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New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Denounces 'Catastrophic' Iraq Destruction
New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday strongly condemned the "catastrophic" destruction of ancient artefacts by extremists in Iraq's second city of Mosul.
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Ex-Hostage Says Brussels Museum Shooting Suspect Was Among Syria Captors
A freed French hostage has said the suspected gunman behind the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May was among his Islamic extremist captors in Syria.
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Museum to Display 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton
The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
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US Museum Rediscovers Ancient Skeleton in Storage
An archaeology museum in Philadelphia has made an extraordinary find - in its own storage rooms.
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Iraq commemorates 1920 revolt against Britain in new museum
Iraq opened a museum in the Shiite pilgrimage city of Najaf on Thursday commemorating a 1920 uprising against British occupation in a building that once housed captured soldiers.
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Despite Iraq's troubles, archaeologists are back
Ur's palaces and temples lie in ruins, but its hulking Ziggurat still dominates the desert flatlands of what is now southern Iraq, as it has for millennia.
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Dog of war: UK Lab fetches medal for bomb-sniffing
A perky British Labrador whose bomb-sniffing exploits helped save lives in Afghanistan was decorated for canine courage in a ceremony at London's Imperial War Museum on Wednesday.
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Britain To Return Looted 4,000-Year-Old Plaque To Iraq
Britain will hand back a 4,000-year-old sculpture to Iraq after an investigation found that it had been looted, the British Museum said on Monday.
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Iraqi Forces Retake Main Government Offices, Museum In Mosul
Iraqi forces said on Tuesday that they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city's west from terrorists.
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Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.
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Iraq Reopens Baghdad Museum After 12 Years
Iraq's national museum officially reopened today after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 pieces looted during the US-led invasion were recovered.
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Track Down Antiquities After Islamic State Museum Rampage: Iraq
Islamic State militants who destroyed priceless antiquities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have kept some artefacts to sell, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said today, vowing to prevent the radical Islamists from smuggling them to market.
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UNESCO Demands Crisis Meet Over Iraq Heritage Destruction
The head of the United Nations' cultural agency on Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the world body's Security Council following the mass destruction by jihadists of ancient artefacts in Iraq.
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New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Denounces 'Catastrophic' Iraq Destruction
New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday strongly condemned the "catastrophic" destruction of ancient artefacts by extremists in Iraq's second city of Mosul.
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Ex-Hostage Says Brussels Museum Shooting Suspect Was Among Syria Captors
A freed French hostage has said the suspected gunman behind the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May was among his Islamic extremist captors in Syria.
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Museum to Display 6,500-Year-Old Human Skeleton
The public will soon get to see an ancient human skeleton recently rediscovered in a Philadelphia museum's storage room.
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US Museum Rediscovers Ancient Skeleton in Storage
An archaeology museum in Philadelphia has made an extraordinary find - in its own storage rooms.
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Iraq commemorates 1920 revolt against Britain in new museum
Iraq opened a museum in the Shiite pilgrimage city of Najaf on Thursday commemorating a 1920 uprising against British occupation in a building that once housed captured soldiers.
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Despite Iraq's troubles, archaeologists are back
Ur's palaces and temples lie in ruins, but its hulking Ziggurat still dominates the desert flatlands of what is now southern Iraq, as it has for millennia.
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Dog of war: UK Lab fetches medal for bomb-sniffing
A perky British Labrador whose bomb-sniffing exploits helped save lives in Afghanistan was decorated for canine courage in a ceremony at London's Imperial War Museum on Wednesday.
