Thousands of Shiite pilgrims are marching in Iraq dressed in black, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of ...

Archaeologists from the Penn Museum and Iraq have uncovered well-preserved shrines at the Ninurta Temple in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. This site, destroyed around 612 BC, is part of the ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq. During this year's excavations, archaeologists unearthed two previously unknown shrines ...

Shiite female pilgrims pray at the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhimduring during their annual pilgrimage in ...

Archaeologists in Iraq excavated a 2,600-year-old temple and found shrines, a stone monument and written tablets, photos show. Photo from the Penn Museum Ancient invaders tore through a massive ...

An Iraqi police officer keeps watch as Shiite pilgrims walk towards the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad, Iraq, 15 February 2023. Iraqi security forces imposed ...

But that does not matter in the least to Um Junayd or the multitudes who have been coming to this shrine since Baghdad was founded 1,200 years ago. "He prayed to God to come to Iraq and die in ...

Tents were set up along the roads leading to the shrine to provide services and rest ... hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Iraq and beyond. In al-Kadhimiyah, vehicle traffic was ...