In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.

The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar ...

A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ...

Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned ... and they also use special ‘medicines’ for our 1,950 ancient manuscripts because those too are very valuable.” Small groups of students ...

A comparative handful of Reds, commanding an army of malcontents, had all but taken over ancient Baghdad, a city of 400,000. The next day, which might have brought revolution, did not. By that ...

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Iraq saw remarkable growth in tourism to UNESCO World Heritage Sites like Babylon and the Mesopotamian Marshes.

An ancient Islamic nomad is giving up his camel-hair tent and has designed his own ‘forever’ family home to settle in Baghdad. He explains his reasons for a lifestyle change and why its ...

The Ancient Church of the East is set to inaugurate its new Patriarch, His Grace, Mar Gewargis Younan, in a ceremony to be held in Baghdad on 9 June 2023. Nassem Sadiq spoke to His Grace ...