The skyline of the city, famous for its citadel and ancient monuments, is changing rapidly, with new hotels being built to accommodate visitors form Iraq and beyond.

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It also is the city's largest natural reserve, famous for its ancient system of shallow canals and chinampas, a method of Mesoamerican agriculture that utilises artificial islands for cultivating vegetables, herbs and flowers which is still in use today.

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Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.

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