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 ...

The Near and Middle East are full of cities of proven antiquity, such as Byblos, Sidon, Jericho, Susa… Less well known is the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, at the center of which is a fortified ...

Threats identified at the time of inscription of the property: Lack of survey, documentation and mapping of surviving surface buried archaeological remains of all types Slopes of the archaeological ...

A map of the northern Iraqi city of Erbil looks like a dart board: circles, radiating outward from a central core. The bull's-eye sits high on a hill, crowned by ancient walls. The Erbil Citadel has ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Erbil governor and prominent Kurdish businessman signed a memorandum of understanding to renovate the city’s ancient citadel on Thursday, a step that aims to attract more ...

On 2 November, UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, visited Erbil Citadel, a site inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during the World Heritage Committee meeting in 2014, where she handed over ...

As fighting in Iraq intensifies and militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) continues its relentless assault, rumors are swirling that American forces have begun bombing the region, and ...

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 ...