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Thanks to passionate art lover and collector Yüksel Erimtan, Ankara now has its first ever archaeology and arts museum formed from a private collection The Turkish capital?s first-ever archaeology and arts museum, the Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum, has just opened, hosting an impressive collection of objects dating back to the Bronze Age of 3000 BC, the Hittite era, the late Roman

Debate continues about the permissibility of representing the human form in Islam, particularly in the wake of ISIL's iconoclastic attacks on ancient structure in Iraq.

The 'Power and Pathos' exhibition displayed at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence on March 14 is an apotheosis of ancient Greek sculpture. Most of the ancient works show the body beautiful in the ancient Greek world.

American archaeologists have unearthed a pharaonic tomb from the 18th dynasty in Egypt's famed temple city of Luxor, officials said on March 10.

The tomb, found at Al-Qurna archaeological site in Luxor, dates to the period of the New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.) and its walls show scenes of celebrations and daily life at that time, the antiquities ministry said.

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A geologist who took part in the excavation of the ancient burial mound in Amphipolis in northern Greece says the ancient tomb found together with a series of vaulted rooms wasn't built at the same time, but somewhat later than the rooms themselves.

The US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must try to protect archaeological sites being destroyed by the jihadists, Iraq's tourism and antiquities minister said March 8.
      
ISIL smashed priceless artefacts at the Mosul museum, then bulldozed the city of Nimrud, which was founded in the 13th century BC.

ISIS doesn’t feel it caused enough damages to ancient sculptures in Northern Iraq. The Jihadists once more attack history itself, by breaking and destroying pieces of art from ancient times in Nimrud, Mosul.

According to Iraqi authorities the archaeological finds near the Tiger river which ISIS has destroyed were dated back to the 13th century BC.

The head of UNESCO has condemned the destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), saying it amounted to a "war crime."

"I condemn with the strongest force the destruction of the site at Nimrud," Irina Bokova said in a statement.        

The Louvre museum in Paris, France invites its visitors to rediscover the Winged Victory of Samothrace in an exhibition which opened yesterday and is scheduled to run until June 15.

This emblematic statue, the most famous exhibit at the Louvre, is again visible after a year of restoration.