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‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

The Guardian - UK

Queen Puabi's lyre: A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 years ago

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

LiveScience

7,000-year-old alien-like figurine from Kuwait a 'total surprise' to archaeologists

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia.

LiveScience

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Israel and the Puritans: A dark mirror

When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?

Salon

Iraq Builds New Church In Ancient Ur To Attract Pilgrims

Iraq unveils plans to build a new church in ancient Ur to attract Christian pilgrims and promote religious tourism, showcasing its rich religious history.

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Twenty years after the US invasion, where are Iraq’s antiquities?

Thousands of artefacts are being shipped back to Iraq, but many more were taken during the post-invasion looting.

Al Jazeera

In Search of Enheduanna, the Woman Who Was History’s First Named Author

It was a random morning in November, and Enheduanna was trending. Suddenly, the ancient Mesopotamian priestess, who had been dead for more than 4,000 years, was a hot topic online as word spread that the first individually named author in human history was … a woman? That may have been…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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From inventors to adventurers and a warrior nun: Kate Mosse on 10 forgotten women who helped shape the world

Women’s achievements and contributions have been routinely neglected, overlooked or misattributed. In my new book, I tell the story of 1,000 of these extraordinary characters missing from history. Here are just a few

The Guardian - UK

In a 'dangerous' land: tourists trickle back to Iraq

Hilla (Iraq) (AFP) - An American tourist poses for a holiday snap in Iraq, in front of the blue-brick Ishtar Gate that was rebuilt at the ancient site of Babylon under dictator Saddam Hussein.

AFP

Rarely-identified object

Launched at Baselworld 1997, the first Urwerk watches featured the minimalistic "wandering hour", recalling a satellite or planet moving across the sky.

Bangkok Post

Lebanese museum returns millennia-old antiquities to Iraq

Baghdad (AFP) - More than 300 ancient cuneiform writing tablets were returned to Iraq on Monday from a private Lebanese museum, as part of Baghdad's widespread efforts to restore antiquities looted during years of war.

AFP

Ancient metal tubes unearthed in 1897 could be oldest surviving drinking straws

Gold and silver tubes, each more than a metre long, were discovered in North Caucasus

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