Eleanor Robson is the voluntary Chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq’s governing council of trustees and Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London

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Inside the Basrah Museum. Photo: Eleanor Robson

Rethinking Iraq’s past – and its future – at the Basrah Museum

One of Saddam Hussein’s crumbling former palaces has been transformed into a state of the art display space for Iraqi antiquities

11 Oct 2016

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