The department of archaeology at the college of arts has published a book on “Birds in Ancient Iraq: an archaeological study” authored by Dr. Jumaa Hareez al-Taliby and the researcher Mayada al-Adely that was issued by Ashur Panibal Publishing House in Baghdad.
The aim of the book is to introduce the Iraqi biodiversity environment (plant and animal) for being an ideal environment for a variety of birds, some of which come from far away areas to demand food and warmth or others that find out that our environment is stable throughout the year, where the reminds of such birds of various kinds have constituted great artistic traces left to us by the ancient inhabitants of Iraq. The author stated that such traces can be found in paintings on pottery, panels in many compositions, whether represented on flat and cylindrical seals and embodied on the sculptures, often forming part of a general scene with all its details or was brought into the scene as a complementary element or for decorative purposes, that can be engraved or photographed in various forms, some of which were closer to their natural form, while in other forms they were in abstract lines and sometimes they have represented individual birds or swarms according to their collective way of life.
