Editing Ctesiphon (section)

== Archaeology ==
A [[Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft|German Oriental Society]] expedition led by Oscar Reuther excavated at Ctesiphon in 1928–29 mainly at Qasr bint al-Qadi on the western part of the site.<ref>{{cite book |first=K. |last=Schippmann |chapter=Ktesiphon-Expedition im Winter 1928/29 |title=Grundzüge der parthischen Geschichte |location=Darmstadt |year=1980 |isbn=3-534-07064-X |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=E. |last=Meyer |title=Seleukia und Ktesiphon |journal=Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft zu Berlin |volume=67 |pages=1–26 |year=1929 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=O. |last=Reuther |author-link=Oscar Reuther |title=The German Excavations at Ctesiphon |journal=[[Antiquity (journal)|Antiquity]] |volume=3 |issue=12 |pages=434–451 |year=1929 |doi=10.1017/S0003598X00003781 |s2cid=163969599 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=J. |last=Upton |title=The Expedition to Ctesiphon 1931–1932 |journal=Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |volume=27 |pages=188–197 |year=1932 |issue=8 |doi=10.2307/3255274 |jstor=3255274 }}</ref> In winter of 1931–1932 a joint expedition of the German State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art continued excavations at the site, focusing on the areas of Ma'aridh, Tell Dheheb, the Taq-i Kisra, Selman Pak and Umm ez-Za'tir under the direction of Ernst Kühnel.<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ctes/hd_ctes.htm Fowlkes-Childs, Blair. “Ctesiphon.” In ''Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History''. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ctes/hd_ctes.htm (July 2016)]</ref>

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, an Italian team from the [[University of Turin]] directed by [[Antonio Invernizzi]] and {{Interlanguage link|Giorgio Gullini|it}} worked at the part of the site on the other side of the Tigris, which they identified as Veh Ardashir. Work mainly concentrated on restoration at the palace of [[Khosrow II]].<ref>G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, First Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Season 1964, Mesopotamia, vol. I, pp. 1–88, 1966</ref><ref>G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, Second Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Season 1965, Mesopotamia, vol. 2, 1967</ref><ref>G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, Third Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Season 1966, Mesopotamia, vol. 3–4, 1968–69</ref><ref>G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, Fifth Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Season 1969, Mesopotamia, vol. 5–6, 1960–71</ref><ref>G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, Sixth Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Seasons 1972/74, Mesopotamia, vol. 5–6, 1973–74</ref><ref>G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, Seventh Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Seasons 1975/76, Mesopotamia, vol. 7, 1977</ref> In 2013, the Iraqi government contracted to restore the Taq Kasra, as a tourist attraction.<ref>{{cite news |title=Iraq to restore ancient Arch of Ctesiphon to woo back tourists |url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/iraq-to-restore-ancient-arch-of-ctesiphon-to-woo-back-tourists/ |work=rawstory.com |date=May 30, 2013 |access-date=September 23, 2013 |archive-date=January 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101034313/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/iraq-to-restore-ancient-arch-of-ctesiphon-to-woo-back-tourists/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>