Italy has permanently bestowed Iraq with the replica of the famed Assyrian "Bull of Nimrud" statue previously displayed at the Roman Colosseum and UNESCO Paris headquarters.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has recently announced its newly appointed assistant conductor, Anna Handler, who will be stepping into the post in September of this year in a two-year-long term.
Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC