BBC Radio Podcasts from Museum of Lost Objects

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Winged Bull of Nineveh

The 2,700 year old sculpture that guarded the gates of one of antiquity's fabled cities

The Fire That Scorched Brazil’s History

Inside the ruin of Brazil’s National Museum – and the struggle to revive it

Tagore’s Nobel Prize Theft

Rabindranath Tagore was the world's first Asian Nobel Laureate - but his medal was stolen

Jinnah’s Last Home

The ruin and rebuilding of Ziarat residency, where Pakistan’s founder spent his last days

Delhi’s Stolen Seat of Power

The creation and capture of Mughal India’s coveted Peacock Throne

The Keeper of Buddha's Bones

In search of Peshawar’s lost Buddhist past

The Cricketer Who Lost His Team

Even cricket was partitioned in 1947

Kashmir’s Palladium cinema

The conflict in Kashmir told through the life and times of a burnt-out movie theatre

The Necklace That Divided Two Nations

India and Pakistan's tussle for Indus Valley antiquities after partition

Nimrud and Hatra

What’s left of the ancient archaeological sites of northern Iraq?

Return to Aleppo

One man's extraordinary quest to find out what became of his home in Aleppo's old town.

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Looted Sumerian Seal, Baghdad

In search of a Sumerian goddess, and the pillaging of Iraq's most important museum

Armenian Martyr’s Memorial, Der Zor

A shrine to the 1915 Armenian massacres, made from human bones in the Syrian desert

The Genie of Nimrud

On the murky trail of a missing genie, last seen in the ancient Assyrian palace of Nimrud

Al-Ma’arri the Poet

Why was the bust of a blind, vegetarian, medieval poet the casualty of Syria's modern war?

Mar Elian Monastery

The legends of a shrine, revered by both Christians and Muslims for hundreds of years

The Lion of al-Lat

The fearsome 2,000 year old statue, regarded as one of the symbols of Palmyra

Minaret of the Umayyad Mosque, Aleppo

The unique minaret of Aleppo's Great Mosque, which is now only a waterfall of rubble.

Tell Qarqur, Hama Province

The ancient hill in western Syria that became a modern battleground

Palmyra: Temple of Bel

One of Palmyra's most iconic structures, and the man who gave his life to protect the city