Tourists are slowly beginning to return to the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, raising hopes among some locals. Skip to main content ... you drive our team’s rigorous and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Corona's images of the Middle East were of particular interest to archaeologists, because of how dramatically the historically important region has changed since the 1960s, according to Cothren.

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.