Ancient Arab temple reveals evidence of hybrid camels - study
A new study finds that camel hybridization was being practiced by a kingdom in the 2,000-year-old ancient city of Hatra in northern Iraq, previously damaged by ISIS.
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A new study finds that camel hybridization was being practiced by a kingdom in the 2,000-year-old ancient city of Hatra in northern Iraq, previously damaged by ISIS.
In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment. Now a small team of archaeologists are protecting it from more modern threats
Assessing the damage: Isis blew up a carved platform in the museum’s Assyrian Hall, leaving an enormous crater Sebastian Meyer/Smithsonian Institution When Pope Francis recently visited Mosul—Iraq’s most diverse city, with historic Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Yazidi communities—it was a piercing reminder of how its religious pluralism was targeted by the Islamic State (Isis). Occupying the city for three years, Isis’s fundamentalist fighters waged a battle for absolute control. By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the...