Erbil Province - Iraq
Erbil or Arbil province in Iraqi Kurdistan is home to the ancient city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Erbil province is also host to other famous, popular and ancient Iraqi cities like Erbil, Arbela or Hewler, Shaqlawa, Soran (Diyana), Mamdi, Koi Sanjaq, Harir, Ain-Kawa, Rawanduz, Barzan, Salahudin, Sargawa, Choman and few other PROUD Iraqi Kurdish and Assyrian villages and cities ... Magnificent places you won't believe your eyes and you wouldn’t think 10,000+ ancient and wonderful places still exist in the cradle of civilization once known as Mesopotamia and best known today as Iraq
ERBIL BETWEEN TWO CIVILIZATION
Erbil is considered the cultural and historical capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is a circular city that was built around its citadel. Erbil is one of the oldest cities in the world that have never ceased to be inhabited.
Capacity Building - Heritage Management Training in Erbil, Iraq
In 2013, WMF developed a heritage management program for Kurdish and Iraqi professionals that stemmed from its long-running commitment to Babylon. Sponsored by the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, the program brought U.S. faculty members to an Iraqi preservation context to teach, exchange knowledge and ideas, and consider how best to equip local stakeholders with the capacity to preserve their own heritage in the years to come. WMF is pleased that the program is continuing through 2014.
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The National Museum of Iraq (Arabic: المتحف العراقي) is a museum located in Baghdad, Iraq. Also known as the Iraq Museum, it contains precious relics from the Mesopotamian, Babylonian and Persian civilization. It was looted during and after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Despite international efforts, only some of the stolen artifacts were returned. After being closed for many years while being refurbished, and rarely open for public viewing, the museum was officially reopened in February 2015.
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IRAQ ARBIL CITADEL VOA-Dari
AN EXCEPTIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN THE DUHOK REGION THE ASSYRIAN ROCK RELIEFS IN FAIDA
The Faida reliefs are recorded in the Official Journal under no. 2269 (14 August 1983). In 1972, a British archaeologist of the British Museum, Julian E. Reade, discovered three rock reliefs along the canal. In August 2012, during archaeological survey work in the Duhok region, the Italian Archaeological Mission to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq of the Udine University, directed by Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, was able to identify six new rock reliefs. Assyrian rock reliefs are extremely rare monuments, which in the Duhok region are known only at Halamata, Khinis and Bandawai. Only the upper parts of the Faida reliefs emerged from the canal fill. The crowns and heads of a series of deities depicted in profile facing left (and thus pointing in the direction in which the channel’s current flowed) were visible.
A stroll in downtown Erbil
History on a Hill
As the world’s earliest known civilization developed in Mesopotamia...as Genghis Khan worked to create the largest contiguous land empire in history...as the Ottomans occupied European and Asian lands for nearly 600 years...each empire had one thing in common. They all set up camp on a small plot of land in what is now the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq: the Erbil Citadel.
The Citadel is possibly the oldest continuously occupied human settlement on Earth, dating back at least 6,000 years. Its extensive history is embedded in its own ground. It sits on an oval-shaped mound that stands about 32 meters (100 feet) high, built up from dirt, debris, and collapsed mud houses from previous human settlements. This ancient town within the heart of Erbil was added to the World Heritage List in 2014. It covers just over 10 hectares (24 acres).
This image of Erbil Citadel and its surroundings was acquired on November 20, 2018, by the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite. From above, Erbil Citadel appears at the center of what looks like a wagon wheel—perhaps more than a coincidence, as evidence suggests humans may have been living there during the Ubaid period, when humans invented the wheel. The Citadel is surrounded by the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region.
The Citadel is today surrounded by tall 19th-century walls, which once gave it an appearance of a formidable fortress. Within those walls, a maze of narrow alleyways and culs-de-sac branch out from the main gate and connect courtyard houses and public buildings—street patterns carried over from the Ottoman period.
Today, only one family lives within the walls, an arrangement by Kurdish officials in order to preserve the Citadel's title of “continuously occupied.” The town currently contains one mosque and various museums open for business. Several organizations are working to rehabilitate and bring new activities to the Citadel.
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Memorial for Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani
(21 Jan 2019) LEADIN
Friends and colleagues have gathered for a memorial to Iraqi archaeologist Lamia al-Gailani.
Gailani, who died on Friday at the age of 80, was one of the country's first women to excavate in Iraq.
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Gathered in the museum she helped to rebuild, those who knew and loved Lamia al-Gailani stand and mourn her.
The beloved archaeologist died in Amman on Friday, aged 80.
As well as being one of the first women to excavate Iraq's rich archaeological heritage, she also helped rebuild Baghdad's National Museum in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2003.
Gailani lent her expertise to restoring relics stolen from the museum for its reopening in 2015. She also championed a new antiquities museum for the city of Basra, which opened in 2016.
My mother's love of history is from her childhood. Her value for it and the importance of knowing humanity through its cultural identity and civilisation pushed her to study archaeology and history in general and Iraqi archaeology specifically, explains her daughter Noorah al-Gailani.
Al-Gailani specialised in the study of cylinder seals, engraved surfaces used to print cuneiform impressions and pictographic lore in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian culture.
The restored collection at the National Museum included hundreds of cylinder seals, the subject of al-Gailani's 1977 dissertation at the University of London. These were engraved surfaces used to print cuneiform impressions and pictographic lore onto documents and surfaces in ancient Mesopotamia, now present-day Iraq.
Still, thousands of artefacts remain missing from the museum's collection, and al-Gailani bore the grief of watching her country's rich heritage suffer unfathomable levels of looting and destruction in the years after Saddam was overthrown.
Born in Baghdad in 1938, al-Gailani studied at the University of Cambridge in Britain before finding work as a curator at the National Museum in 1960. It was her first job in archaeology.
She returned to Britain in 1970 to pursue advanced studies, and she made her home there. But she kept returning to her native country, connecting foreign academics with an Iraqi archaeological community that was struggling under the isolation of Saddam Hussein's autocratic rule and the UN sanctions against him.
In 1999, she published The First Arabs, in Arabic, with the Iraqi archaeologist Salim al-Alusi, on the earliest traces of Arab culture in Mesopotamia, in the 6th through to the 9th centuries.
After the US-led invasion, al-Gailani continued to travel to Iraq, determined to rescue its heritage even as the country convulsed with war.
At the time of her death, she was working with the Basra Museum to curate a new exhibition set to open in March, according to Qahtan al-Abeed, the museum director.
Qais Hussein Rashid, Iraq's Deputy Minister of Culture, describes Gailani's death as a big loss.
After the memorial at Iraq Museum, Gailani's remains are moved to the Qadiriyyah mosque for prayers and later interment.
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اكتشافات نينوى Discoveries of Nineveh iraq
Iraq: Over 150 stolen artefacts recovered from Europe on display in Baghdad
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As many as 173 artefacts, stolen by other countries and recently recovered by Iraq, have gone on display in the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities in Baghdad on Wednesday.
The artefacts were reportedly recovered from the UK and Sweden among other countries and were first displayed in Iraq’s Foreign Ministry before being handed over to the Ministry of Culture.
Head of the Museum of the Ministry of Culture Ali Awaid al-Abadi accused the US of being one of the countries who had stolen the relics.
The Ministry of Culture and the Department of Arts have information that those who broke the doors and assaulted this important cultural place were American forces, he said as most items are believed to have been smuggled out of Iraq during the US invasion of the country.
Among the artefacts recovered are archaeological items dating back to at least 4,000 years ago and to the ancient Sumerian civilisation.
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Slêmanî museum in Kurdistan is paying smugglers to return looted treasure
(CNN) -- Iraq's second largest museum in Sulaimaniya is recovering stolen artifacts by paying smugglers to return the treasures.
Located in the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the Slemani Museum has taken drastic measures to refill display cabinets following looting.
The position of not just UNESCO but the international museum community is that we don't buy back looted objects because it encourages looting. Simple. Full stop, says Stuart Gibson, director of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project.
The Kurdish authorities took a very difficult and I must admit a very courageous position and they said we are going to buy these objects, he added.
Iraq has struggled with looters, most notably in 2003 when thieves sacked the National Museum in Baghdad stealing treasures dating thousands of years to the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia.
Original estimates said 170,000 pieces had been looted from the museum. However, authorities say it was closer to around 15,000 artifacts, of which 6,000 had been recovered by the time the museum reopened in 2009.
While paying smugglers for the return of lost treasures is a controversial move on the part of the museum, it seems to have worked in this instance. One of the recently-recovered artifacts is an ancient democratic text that smugglers asked just $600 for.
It's a full Sumerian text written during the old Babylonian period, around 1,800-900 B.C., says Dr. Farouk Al-Rawi, a professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
It is the first document to tell us about democracy. It concerns the establishment of two assemblies, he added.
The return of this tablet to the museum is ironic considering that thousands of years later, Iraq is still trying to establish a semblance of a democracy.
Despite the Slemani Museum's unorthodox move, smuggling has decreased in the region in part due to the growing awareness of the problem and a joint effort by authorities. But organizations say more help is needed to stop thieves.
The museum's director Hashim Abdulla says that in the region of Kurdistan there are still thousands of undiscovered sites yet to be excavated.
He points out a recent site in a small village 20 minutes outside of Sulaimaniya. Artifacts at this location have dated back to the Assyrian period, almost 3,000 years ago.
Under Kurdistan regional governmental laws the site should become a protected area but in reality in many cases those laws are too difficult to implement.
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December 13, 2011 -- Updated 1647 GMT (0047 HKT)
HATRA's TREASURE (in memory of Hatra city) :(((
SOMEONE WANTS TO ERASE (systematically) SOME LAST EVIDENCES OF HUMAN HISTORY.
Good cover by terrorists... WHO is really behind of these creatures???
The ancient city of Hatra in northern Iraq. Islamists or who IS behind of them - demolished archaeological remains, the 8th of March, 2015!!!
The Paul IV *the Papa (if i remember right) said:
To subdue the people peacefully, I have very simple and usefully reliable way -
I delete their's past; the people without past are vulnerable. They lose their roots.
And so they become vulnerable and confused. Then I can write any history-story as
on clean canvas
Previously, they have destroyed ancient monuments of culture that do not meet (al-la) their religious doctrine. So, in February, militants blew up and burned the central library of the city of Mosul, destroyed sculptures pre-Islamic era, preserved in the museum of the city, and later destroyed the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud southeast of Mosul. In addition, the terrorists decided to destroy the ancient Assyrian city of Dur-Sharrukin…
A large fortified city under the influence of the Parthian Empire and capital of the first Arab Kingdom, Hatra withstood invasions by the Romans in A.D. 116 and 198 thanks to its high, thick walls reinforced by towers. The remains of the city, especially the temples where Hellenistic and Roman architecture blend with Eastern decorative features, attest to the greatness of its civilization.
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HISTORICAL PLACES OF IRAQ IN GOOGLE EARTH PART FOUR ( 4/4 )
1. CITADEL OF ERBIL 36°11'28.68N 44° 0'33.45E
2. ABBASID PALACE,BAGHDAD 33°20'34.41N 44°23'0.33E
3. TAQ KISRA,MADAIN 33° 5'37.84N 44°34'51.01E
4. HASHEMITE ROYAL GRAVEYARD,BAGHDAD 33°21'56.60N 44°21'28.63E
5. AL-SAWAF MOSQUE,ERBIL 36°11'1.37N 44° 0'13.49E
6. FLYING SQUARE,BAGHDAD 33°19'51.39N 44°24'44.69E
7. MAR GEWERGIS CHURCH,BAGHDAD 33°15'1.15N 44°23'7.41E
8. MUSEUM MONUMENT,BAGHDAD 33°19'35.29N 44°23'2.93E
9. SAMARRA GRAND MOSQUE,SAMARRA 34°11'56.07N 43°52'23.89E
10. MONUMENT TO THE ARTISTS,BAGHDAD 33°19'49.71N 44°24'43.27E
11. HANDS OF VICTORY WEST,SWORDS OF QADISIYAH
33°18'21.66N 44°22'42.62E
12. IRAQ FLAG MONUMENT 33°21'14.42N 44°22'44.49E
13. IMAM ABBAS HOLY SHRINE,KARBALA 32°37'1.59N 44° 2'10.65E
14. KING FAISAL'S MONUMENT,BAGHDAD 33°19'47.88N 44°23'32.46E
15. STATUE OF KAHREMANA,BAGHDAD 33°18'40.76N 44°25'26.90E
16. MOSQUE OF THE CALIPHS,BAGHDAD 33°20'19.96N 44°23'52.11E
17. URYAN CAMII,KIRKUK 35°28'12.34N 44°23'46.23E
18. HAIDER KHANNA MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°20'33.12N 44°23'22.04E
19. RAMADAN MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°18'52.67N 44°25'19.03E
20. MOSQUE,RAMADI 33°25'47.37N 43°18'7.93E
21. MONUMENT OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER,BAGHDAD
33°18'30.32N 44°23'20.58E
Treasures of Iraq's national museum to go online
(24 Nov 2009)
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Baghdad, 24 November 2009
1. Wide of Google chief Eric Schmidt's car convoy entering into museum
2. Sign reading Iraqi museum
3. US ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill shaking hands with museum official and other Iraqi officials
4. Schmidt shaking hands with Iraqi officials
5. Various of Hill, Schmidt and other officials touring the museum
6. Various of antiquities and statues on display inside museum
7. Various interiors of museum
8. Various of Schmidt and other officials walking in the museum
9. Schmidt handing Google emblem to museum director
10. Cutaway of cameramen
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google:
The history of the beginning of, literally civilisation, was made right here and is preserved here in this museum. And I can think of no better use of our time and our resources to make the images and ideas from your civilisation, from the very beginning of time, available to a billion people worldwide.
12. Cutaway of reporter
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google:
And the vast resources of this museum that are today in storage and in other places will be brought here. And as that information and objects and history becomes available, Google will also take pictures and partner with the museum to make even a greater amount of information available to all the citizens of the world.
14. Wide of news conference
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The treasures of Iraq's national museum are to go online.
14,000 images of artefacts will be available to view via Google early next year.
The chief of the internet giant toured the museum in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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Google chief, Eric Schmidt described the collection at Iraq's National Museum as the history of the beginning of civilisation after a tour of the building on Tuesday (24NOV09).
The head of the internet giant said the company has taken 14,000 photographs of the museum and its artifacts and will put them online early next year.
Schmidt said Google will make their images and ideas available to a billion people worldwide.
I can think of no better use of our time and our resources to make the images and ideas from your civilisation, from the very beginning of time, available to a billion people worldwide, he said.
The museum holds artifacts from the Stone Age through to the Islamic caliphates.
It was looted in the chaotic days after the American-led invasion and occupation in 2003 and was only reopened earlier this year.
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HISTORICAL PLACES OF IRAQ IN GOOGLE EARTH PART ONE ( 1/4 )
1. THEATRE OF BABYLON 32°32'32.78N 44°25'48.00E
2. AL BUNNIA MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°19'24.75N 44°23'1.44E
3. HOLY IMAM ALI SHRINE,NAJAF 31°59'45.27N 44°18'52.08E
4. CHURCH OF MAR JOSEPH,ERBIL 36°13'38.39N 43°59'31.62E
5. HANDS OF VICTORY EAST,SWORDS OF QADISIYAH,BAGHDAD 33°18'21.66N 44°22'42.62E
6. FLAG 33°25'32.10N 43°17'37.58E
7. AL-NEDA'S MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°22'28.17N 44°23'3.60E
8. W M 32°43'37.44N 44°15'41.44E
9. ART CENTER,BAGHDAD 33°18'16.29N 44°22'41.52E
10. ZIGGURAT OF DUR-KURIGALZU,ABU GHARIB 33°21'13.06N 44°12'9.21E
11. UM AL TUBOUL MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°17'12.97N 44°20'39.44E
12. KERKUK OSMANLI KISLE,KIRKUK 35°28'16.39N 44°23'18.92E
13. MAIN GATE OF ALSALAM PALACE,BAGHDAD 33°17'53.11N 44°21'59.61E
14. ABU HANIFA MOSQUE & SHRINE,BAGHDAD 33°22'19.26N 44°21'30.54E
15. AL MUSTAGA MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°16'38.72N 44°22'45.36E
16. THE MOTHER OF BATTLES MONUMENT,BAGHDAD 33°20'48.83N 44°22'56.25E
17. ALZAWRAA TOWER,BAGHDAD 33°18'34.34N 44°22'35.72E
18. ABD-AL-MUHSIN AL-KADUMI'S ROUNDABOUT,BAGHDAD 33°21'57.12N 44°20'43.98E
19. FREEDOM MONUMENT,BAGHDAD 33°19'41.58N 44°24'33.24E
20. ASEFEYA MOSQUE,BAGHDAD 33°20'20.44N 44°23'21.38E
21. MA'ROOF ALKARKHI'S MOSUQE,BAGHDAD 33°20'1.31N 44°22'26.90E
22. MARAN TEMPLE,HATRA 35°35'18.63N 42°43'1.41E
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The Largest Excavation in UK History & Assyrian Discoveries in Iraq - Earthly Headlines
The construction of a large railway system in the UK has spurred the largest concurrent excavation in the country's history. The Jindo takes a look at the details of the project, what has already been found, and the story of an ancient Assyrian artifact that made its way to the United States.
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