The 2003 invasion of Iraq had many casualties, not the least of which was the collective memory of a nearly 5,000-year-old civilization, stretching from ancient cuneiform on clay tablets to the voluminous personal records of Saddam Hussein's secret police.In the second issue of the magazine Document Journal, art historian Zainab Bahrani gives a first-hand account of the destruction of the National Library and State Archives of Iraq, an institution that collected thousands of historical documents, legal papers, manuscripts, clay tablets.
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Japan's Foreign Ministry burnt about 8,000 files of highly-classified documents shortly before the nation's surrender in World War II on August 15, 1945, according to Japanese diplomatic records declassified on Thursday.
The National Archives will host a discussion regarding the theft of America’s national treasures and ways to prevent them. Officials say that Archivist David S. Ferriero will provide the opening remarks at Thursday’s event.
Maureen Taylor: "At some point in our lives we have all studied the American Revolution.. For most of us it seems long ago and far away, but it doesn’t have to...
A set of desperate letters penned by a 19th Century poisoner known infamously as the 'Black Widow' before she was executed will be sold at auction next week. Serial killer Mary Ann Cotton was hanged in March 1873 for murdering her seven-year-old stepson Charles with arsenic.
Part of the Capital’s historic First World War trenches have been damaged by botched flood defence works. A channel was dug through one of the training trenches at Redford Woods in Colinton to provide an outlet for water from a nearby stream.
Rare Civil War images of African American life and battlefield scenes appear in the new exhibit, "The Civil War in Photographs: New Perspectives from the Robin Sanford Collection."
Lloyd and Marian Michael, now 89 and 88, thought the missives of their love were gone forever until a stranger came to their aid just in time for their 70th wedding anniversary.
Tens of thousands of archival papers. Nineteen thousand artifacts. The thousands of donated items, carefully chosen by immigrants to bring to America—from Bibles to pasta makers to musical instruments.
Many items in North Carolina’s nearly 1,000 cultural and historical repositories are at risk as a result of normal deterioration, environmental damage, negligence or improper handling. The State Archives of North Carolina can help through its Traveling Archivist Program (TAP).
The majority of Timbuktu’s manuscripts is safe, according to experts involved in the preservation of the ancient texts.
The house at the end of the snow-covered cul-de-sac in an isolated neighbourhood seemed an odd place for a museum.
A writer believes he has uncovered how a middle-ranking Welsh army officer may have helped to alter the course of World War One. Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies, VC, CB, CMG, DSO is best-remembered by followers of Welsh military history as a war hero from the Boer War, who won the Victoria Cross.
The Dutch records in Guyana, registered as UNESCO Memory of the World in 2011, are in a very poor condition. Ink corrosion, insects and the tropical climate have made the documents very fragile over time, UNESCO reported.
They were born seven decades apart, but fate brought them together. It's a love story, but not the kind you think. Workplace friendships are generally generational. The young blond at the front desk rarely has time for the old geezer who can't figure out the copier.