Ben Kacyra, an Iraqi-born engineer and entrepreneur*,*wants to digitise the world’s most significant physical heritage. “As a child growing up in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, I often spent time ...

Ancient Assyrian clay tablets held at the British Museum in London. (Alamy) Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major ...