The Academic Research Institute in Iraq has been established to promote scholarly research on and in Iraq and ancient Mesopotamia.
Washington, DC
Joined October 2017
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"Ali Sami, 32, from Baghdad, launched “Son of Sumer” to promote Iraq’s ancient heritage and introduce the script to younger generations and foreign tourists. He is showcasing the project at the festival’s 13th edition."
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"Covering urbanization from the Uruk period to the Hellenistic and Roman eras, the essays present current analyses of urban landscapes, city planning & the ideological and functional dimensions that shaped the major cities of Mesopotamia and its environs."
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"The tablets date from 2112 to 2004 BCE. Most come from the Umma region in southern Mesopotamia. Twelve tablets come from Umma, while two belong to the Irisaĝrig archives. One tablet might come from Ur or Ĝirsu/Lagaš."
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"Researchers said this supports the idea that early farmers in the region gradually reshaped natural water channels into more organized irrigation systems."
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"The World Heritage designation emphasises Babylon’s value as a surviving record of an empire that influenced law, religion and urban culture across Mesopotamia and beyond." ad-hoc-news.de/unterhaltung/…
"Cahill has suggested that such builders may have introduced construction knowledge to Sardis, where the Lydian kings had the resources to undertake enormous building projects."
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"But meaningful attempts to decolonise this field of study also need to address how archaeological problems are defined, whose expertise is recognised, and who gets to shape research priorities."
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"Around 530 BC, in the shadow of the great ziggurat of Ur, Babylonian princess and high priestess Ennigaldi-Nanna assembled a collection that included objects already ancient in her time." greekreporter.com/2026/08/24…
“Clay, as a medium, has a way of connecting us to the past, and in using it, it opened an interest into historical research...It’s been so rewarding to study ancient objects, learn how to distill...and create my own world and mythology.”
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"I argue that explicit engagement with animal affordances offers a means of developing a new methodological toolkit for social zooarchaeological research. " - Kathryn Grossman
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“Arabic calligraphy is not merely a means of writing, but a vessel for our civilization and culture,” Barzanji said.
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"Users can read ancient tablets (Akkadian to English) and write their own messages as cuneiform clay tablets (English to Akkadian to cuneiform to rendered tablet)"
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"The discovery, published just days ago, reveals that long-distance exchange networks connected the two regions as far back as the fourth millennium BCE, centuries earlier than many scholars had assumed."
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"In her own words: 'I fill my life with dance, and my dance with life.'"
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"The front of the stele, standing at two meters high and 1.55 meters wide, bears a large, high-relief sculpture of Ashurbanipal, while its back side features two smaller reliefs of unnamed Assyrian kings."
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"The complaint was written by a customer named Nanni, who accused the merchant Ea-nāṣir of supplying copper ingots of inferior quality."
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The next Modern Iraq Convening, a virtual workshop for junior scholars will be held on May 28th.. Presented works will be based on original research in/about Iraq since the 19th century.
This event is open to all but will be held in Arabic. Register now!
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The next Modern Iraq Convening, a virtual workshop for junior scholars will be held on May 28th.. Presented works will be based on original research in/about Iraq since the 19th century.
This event is open to all but will be held in Arabic. Register now!
tarii.org/events/2026/5/28/a…
As part of our PLAI program with Heritage Management Organization, the next preventive conservation virtual course will be available openly to the public! Come learn how to preserve archival photographic collections!
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