Historian says ancient Baghdad's circular design was inspired by the mandala
In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.
The ancient origins of New Year’s resolutions and how the tradition has changed
The answer, it turns out, traces back 3,000 to 4,000 years, to the ancient Babylonian festival of Akitu, celebrated in April, ...
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William Dalrymple’s new book traces ancient India’s role in spreading ideas and religions across the world
How ancient merchants, missionaries, monks and artists paved a ‘Golden Road’ that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific ...
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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
During the period 500–1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history ...
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MBS, Iraq PM discuss Syria developments during meeting in AlUla
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the latest developments in Syria with Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani during a meeting in the ancient ... Riyadh and Baghdad and ways to ...
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Fire ravaged wealthy temple 2,600 years ago. But these ‘remarkable’ finds survived
A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ...
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Pictures of Assyrian Villages in Turkey in 1912
The mountains of Jilu with the village of Nahra (Kapaklı/Kapalıdere) in the foreground. On the peak opposite it can be seen ...
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IRAQ: The Coed & the Communists
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 ...