BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to ...

Pope Francis's Iraq schedule. The pope's programme in Iraq includes visits to the cities of Baghdad, Najaf, Ur, Mosul, Qaraqosh and Erbil. He will traverse some 1,445 kms in a country where ...

The boards were carried all over the Middle East — and sometimes scratched into clay or rock, if no board was available — by soldiers, missionaries, explorers and traders, who introduced it to ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative ...

Pope Francis traveled to the ruins of the ancient city of Ur, considered the cradle of civilization, to remind people that what binds them is more powerful than what divides.

A project has been launched to record and map ancient sites in the Middle East before they are destroyed by warfare, looting and urban expansion.

The ancient city is the birthplace of the father of the three major monotheistic religions, a fitting backdrop for an interfaith dialogue, Pope Francis said. Pope speaks of interfaith tolerance from ...

Shalev said the maps teach us a lot about the trends in Europe in the 16th century, perhaps even more than they show us the situation of the Middle East at the time.

Ur said the canals indicate that the farming system underlying what was then the Middle East's dominant empire was more complex and organized than previously thought.

The bell of a new church built near Iraq’s ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to one of the world’s oldest ...

Drone view shows the \"Ibrahim Al-Khalil\" church, which was built in an effort to attract tourists and Christians to the ancient city, after the Pope's visit to Ur in 2021, Iraq March 3, 2024.