A new study suggests it had an 'outer' cell that reacted with air to supply a higher voltage. But was it a battery at all?

The director of the Baghdad Museum, Donny George, left his job earlier this month and fled the country last Sunday. He complained of interference by Shiite Muslim extremists with connections in the ...

In the shadowy halls of the Iraqi National Museum, the remnants of Babylon seem largely forgotten. The carved stone forms of 2,000-year-old rulers are scattered haphazardly throughout a maze of ...

After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Donny George watched in horror as the Baghdad Museum was ransacked of some of its most ancient artifacts — 15,000 in all. The incident provoked an ...

The Iraq Museum has a majestic, world-class collection of ancient art dating back 5,000 years, but it struggles to connect with an audience of younger Iraqis. By Alissa J. Rubin The items, which ...

BOSTON - A stolen artifact dating back about 2,700 years has been returned to Iraq. The small ivory figure is called "Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth." It stands a little over 2 inches ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In Iraq's national museum a frieze shows Assyrian King Sargon II, who ruled an empire from what is now northern Iraq, storming a rampart as soldiers pile decapitated heads before ...

Here is some news from the Baghdad museum. As an American and as an art lover I am really worried about this place. I feel that art is the highest expression of what it means to be human. Art is the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- For the director of a shuttered museum in a country at war, the imaginary can be a welcome refuge. Condemned to contemplate his own and his country's fate in great halls emptied of ...