Institute for Cuneiform Studies, Mosul
In 2002 the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Research requested British Museum assistance to support their planned new Institute for Cuneiform Studies at the University of Mosul. Teaching and research were to focus on Ashurbanipal's Library, which had been excavated across the river from Mosul. Construction of the ICS is well underway and its doors should open within the next couple of years. It will house departments of Archaeology, Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations, Excavation and Conservation. Archaeologists from Mosul are now excavating at Nineveh; it is hoped that the rest of Ashurbanipal's Library may soon be found there.
The Institute for Cuneiform Studies under construction
Jon Taylor
Jon Taylor, 'Institute for Cuneiform Studies, Mosul', Ashurbanipal Library Project, The Ashurbanipal Library Project, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, 2015 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/asbp/about/icsmosul/]