Observer

How Did These Ancient Syrian Artifacts End Up at the Met? A Candid Exhibition Reveals.

The reliefs themselves date back to the Neo-Hittite period and were excavated from Tell Halaf, an archaeological site in northern Syria that was once a city-state called Guzana filled with elaborate ...
Time

From the Ashes: Reviving Ancient Works in Berlin

The reconstructed 'Scorpion Bird Man' sculpture is on display at the exhibition 'The Tell Halaf Adventure' at the Pergamon Museum in BerlinMarkus Schreiber / AP It’s the result of nine years of ...
The Art Newspaper

Invoking his own great-grandfather, an artist considers the fragmented history of Syrian artefacts

Casting a spotlight on the fraught nature of antiquities acquisitions, the exhibition Rayyane Tabet/Alien Property at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (until 18 January 2021) tells the intertwined story ...
rudaw

Traces of Halaf culture discovered by Spanish, Kurdish archeologists in north Erbil

SORAN, Kurdistan Region - On a hilltop north of Erbil province traces of life dating back to the Halaf prehistoric period were discovered by Kurdish and Spanish archeologists who have been excavating ...