Erbil Citadel is a fortified settlement on top of an imposing ovoid-shaped tell (a hill created by many generations of people living and rebuilding on the same spot) in the Kurdistan region, Erbil ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - High on a rocky outcrop, just 50 miles from the fighting that is wrecking historic sites across Iraq, workers are busy laying out floor tiles, determined to save at least one ...

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay today launched a new programme to preserve Iraq’s cultural heritage. The Reviving the World Heritage Site of Erbil Citadel project, funded by KAR New Ventures ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO has signed a landmark $10 million agreement with KAR Group, a major privately-owned oil company in the Kurdistan Region, to renovate ...