"This project will return the Mosul Cultural Museum to its rightful place at the heart of the city and make it a cultural hub for the region," says the director, Zaid Ghazi Saadallah. The museum ...

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The Nuri mosque in Mosul was constructed in the 12th century. “Since its construction in the second half of the 12th century CE, al-Nuri Mosque was invested as Mosul’s Great Mosque.

as well as artifacts at the Mosul Museum. Churches, mosques, and religious sites also succumbed to the group’s violence. The tomb of Jonah was destroyed in the summer of 2014, soon after ISIS ...

Terrible acts of vandalism followed, with videos released by the group showing its members smashing artefacts at Mosul Museum and blowing up parts of the site of the Assyrian capital of Nimrud.

The ISIS Prisons Museum uses online digital storytelling and immersive exhibitions to promote awareness of the Islamic State ...

Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.

"We have started to collect data and we are working on the conservation of the Mosul museum," he said. "Once the Mosul museum building is finished, we have this project with the Louvre museum in ...

The Three Walls. Spatial Narratives of Old Mosul exhibition will highlight a section of the museum's work around the historic ...