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Nineveh: Babylonian Texts
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
Akkadian and Post-Akkadian Periods
A study outline with images and maps of the Third Dynasty of Ur.
An Early Achaemenid Administrative Text from Uruk
Translation, transliteration, and drawing ot tablet.
'Forgotten' Head-dresses Shed Light on Mesopotamian Death Rites
From Independent, Gold and silver jewellery dating from 2,500BC has been discovered in a storeroom at the British Museum among relics first excavated in the 1920s.
Picking Up the Pieces in Baghdad
From The Art Newspaper, Iraqi museum conservators are to receive intensive training at the British Museum to help them restore their damaged objects.
Airmen, Iraqis Dig Up Ancient Site
Iraqi archeologists have determined the air base has at least one site with artifacts dating back to between 1200 B.C. and 2600 B.C.
Iraq: Archaeological Expedition Mapping Ancient City Of Uruk
German archaeologists working in Iraq have made a partial map of the ancient site of Uruk and discovered that some of its features are just as described in the Sumerian epic poem "The Song of Gilgamesh."
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line.
Tigris Dam Damns Assur
From the Art Newspaper, the Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire.
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