The secretary-general of the Council of Ministers confirmed that Ur will turn its historic legacy into a cultural and tourism ...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- In Nasiriyah, the capital city of Iraq's Dhi Qar Province, neighboring the ancient archaeological site of Ur, a modern airport is taking shape. A new control tower stands ...

A new church complex has been built near the ancient city of Ur, in Iraq, in an effort to draw attention to the long history of the country's beleaguered Christian community. The building of the ...

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to one ...

UR, Iraq (AP) -- This is the place where civilization arose, where an ingenious race of people irrigated fields, forged agricultural tools and devised the written word. Some 6,000 years after this ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven ...

UR, Iraq (Reuters) - Ur's palaces and temples lie in ruins, but its hulking Ziggurat still dominates the desert flatlands of what is now southern Iraq, as it has for millennia. Climbing the Ziggurat's ...