Penn team expands cultural heritage work in Iraq, backed by new funding Three big new projects restoration of a fortification gate, repair of an important landmark, and a survey of historic non-religious architecture recently got underway. The Ottoman-period Beit al-Tutunji the Tutunji House has a central open-air courtyard surrounded by rooms that, at the height of fighting, became a base for ISIS. For several years, the Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program (IHSP) has been working on its restoration, which is now about 60% complete. Shown here is the semi-subterranean basement during restoration, a cool space that inhabitants of the house would have used in the heat of Mosul’s summer.