The Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists discovered remarkably preserved shrines at a temple that was destroyed by fire ...
In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.
A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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Iraq saw remarkable growth in tourism to UNESCO World Heritage Sites like Babylon and the Mesopotamian Marshes.