Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Memories like these reenact themselves in my mind now as we drive through the city, and for a moment I imagine I've returned to Baghdad the way a ghost might haunt the world it once inhabited.

Babylon, an hour's drive south of Baghdad, dates to ancient Mesopotamia. The city on the banks of the Euphrates River was the home of Hammurabi and later Nebuchadnezzar, who built the famous ...

Dalrymple contends that ancient India transformed nations ... reflects his father's studies in Kashmir, helped plan Baghdad as a circular city, probably inspired by the mandala.

The ancient round city is located in the north, and to the west is Saddam International Airport. The roads in Baghdad are wide, particularly west of the Tigris, where many government buildings ...

Did you know that Iraq holds the distinction of having the most artifacts in the British Museum outside of the UK? These ...

His vast empire, encompassing several sumptuous palaces dotted across the entire oil-rich Gulf state, has crumbled to just a few secure tunnels deep underneath the ancient city of Baghdad.

The Bronze Age city — which "could be" the ancient city of Zakhiku, per the release — surfaced earlier this year after "large amounts of water" were drawn from the reservoir "to prevent crops ...

The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with ... The scholars worked together to translate ancient Roman and Greek texts on subjects like algebra, medicine, astronomy.

A war-torn nation which was once an area of operations where British soldiers served - a war in which 179 of them lost their ...