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

The Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists discovered remarkably preserved shrines at a temple that was destroyed by fire ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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