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.

A short description of the ancient city of Agade.

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.

A study outline with images and maps of the Third Dynasty of Ur.

Translation, transliteration, and drawing ot tablet.

From DefenseLINK News, The coalition in Iraq has taken steps to protect an ancient Babylon archaeological site.

From Space.com, suggests evidence that a giant comet impact and associated meteor storms could have wiped out early civilizations and caused a great flood.

Clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress? collections.

This project is the final pre-publication work on a two-volume set that will complete the presentation of base data from the 1930-38 in the Diyala River basin of northeast of Baghdad.

Transoxiana 8. Portrait of a Near Eastern woman, in 2300 B.C. Enheduanna represented a strong and creative personality, an educated woman, and one who fulfilled diverse roles in a complex society, not unlike women's aspirations today.

From the Guardian, Iraq urges Germany today to return chunks of Babylon shipped to Berlin at the beginning of the last century in a heritage seizure which makes Britain's removal of the Parthenon Marbles look tame.

The history and cultural heritage of Iraq. Invites the active participation of the Iraq reconstruction community as well as students, professors, professionals and cultural enthusiasts from all countries.

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."

From the Art Newspaper, interview with John Russell, the acting senior advisor for culture to the Coalition Provisional Authority, assesses the situation on the ground.

From Voice of America, security officials in Iraq say a sting operation has recovered hundreds of stolen artifacts destined for overseas black markets.

A report of the excavations by the Oriental Institute at Khorsabad from 1928 to 1935.

From Guardian Unlimited, an American archaeologist urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq.

Renewed conflict could boost looting of Mesopotamia, archaeologists fear.

Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2004. April 2003, during the mayhem that followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, looters entered the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad, and stole or destroyed artifacts. In the confusion, no one outside Iraq knew exactly what was taken or the identity of the thieves.

Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line.

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

Archeological findings, this article originally appeared in Al-Rafidan, Vol. XIV, 1993.

From The Art Newspaper, Iraqi museum conservators are to receive intensive training at the British Museum to help them restore their damaged objects.

Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite.

Francis Deblauwe gathers articles and information about the impact of the war on the archaeological remains in Iraq, including the losses from looting.

A description of University of Chicago excavations at Nippur. Includes: annual reports, articles and images.

By gathering all available data on persons and personal names in the Neo-Assyrian period, PNA is a research tool that makes this large body of information accessible to Assyriologists and scholars in related fields.

From the Art Newspaper, the Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire.

Museum exhibit with archived information about C. Leonard Woolley's excavation of the royal tombs at Ur. Related images. Discussion of Woolley's theory of the Great Flood.

3D computer reconstructions of Ur.