ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to an enormous loss of cultural heritage for the country: An estimated 15,000 objects, some millennia old, were looted from the Iraq ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...