Culture & Arts

Greek archaeologists have discovered a unique 4,000-year-old stone building from the Minoan civilization on a hilltop in Crete, which may disrupt a new airport project near Kastelli, the CNN said on Friday. The 1,800-square-meter structure, resembling a car wheel from…

Christie’s, a British auction house, on Tuesday put for auction a collection of Christian liturgical texts written in Coptic, known as “one of the oldest existing copies of the Bible”, fetching £3.06 million ($3.89 million). The Egyptian manuscript, “Crosby-Schøyen Codex,”…

A joint academic study between France and Iran has found evidence of human presence in a cave in central Iran, dating between 452,000 and 165,000 years ago. The findings include carved stone tools, horse bones, and primary teeth. The study,…

The Bara Imambara, also known as Asafi Imambara, stands as a grand historical monument in Lucknow, built in 1784 by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula. This architectural marvel is not only one of the city’s most significant cultural and religious landmarks but also…

The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) confirmed on Wednesday that Iraq has recovered over 6,000 stolen and smuggled artifacts in cooperation with some countries around the world. SBAH’s director, Ali Ubaid Shalgam, said in a statement during…

The famous Kazan Museum in Tatarstan, a republic in the east-central part of European Russia, embraces an extensive historical collection of handwritten manuscripts and Holy Qurans. One of its most distinguished exhibits is an exquisitely written Quran, so finely crafted…

The engineering and technical teams at the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali, peace be upon him, in Holy Najaf, have started developing “Ya’sub al-Din Educational and Recreational Area” as part of a massive scientific, cultural, and intellectual project. This project…

The holy city of Najaf has hosted the 12th International Comprehensive Shopping Exhibition and Festival, which aims at enhancing trade exchange and global communication. Holy Najaf’s Governor, Youssef Kanaoui, stated during the opening of the exhibition that “the International Comprehensive…

Imam Ridha Holy Shrine has gifted a digitized copy of a rare Quranic manuscript to the treasury of Al-Abbas Holy Shrine in Holy Karbala. Salah al-Siraj, the director of the Manuscript Imaging and Cataloging Center affiliated with the Intellectual and…

The Iraqi calligrapher and researcher in Islamic arts, Ali Hayder Al-Hasani, affirmed that Imam Ali, peace be upon him, was the first to establish the script of the Noble Quran in the Islamic world. Al-Hasani’s statement came during a lecture…