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The Baghdad Museum has launched a wax museum depicting a historical period from the ancient city’s vibrant past, recreating the simplicity, cohesion, and social richness of a bygone era lived by ancient Baghdadi people. Captured by the lens of Shafaq News Agency, the wax museum, a new addition to the …

Iraq recovered an artifact, dating back nearly 2,700 years, which is believed to have been stolen during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced in a statement that it returned the piece to the Iraqi authorities, which is believed to have been …

Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck — and Greece’s first underwater museum. “This is a combination of diving and archaeological diving. It’s diving …

Burglars have stolen three diamond jewelry sets from one of Europe’s largest treasure collections – the Dresden Green Vault in eastern Germany. The sets consist of 37 parts each, and the thieves may try to break them up. Dresden police and museum officials say they are still trying to establish …